State ex rel. Workman v. Anderson

Lively, Judge:

At the March term, 1921, of the Criminal Court of Raleigh County, two indictments were returned against D. F. Work*2man, each for a felony, charging him with accepting certain bribes as commissioner of the county court of that county in the performance of his official duty. The first felony indictment charged him with accepting and receiving from one C. L. Lilly the sum of $2,500.00, paid or given to said Workman by said Lilly upon an agreement between them that Workman, then a commissioner of the county court, would vote for the purchase of a tract of land of 79 acres which Lilly…