Peacock v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of San Saba. Tried below before Hon. W. M. Allison. Appeal from a conviction for bribery; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment is set out in the opinion. The defendant excepted generally and specially to the indictment and moved to quash the same.
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Appeal from the District Court of San Saba. Tried below before Hon. W. M. Allison. Appeal from a conviction for bribery; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment is set out in the opinion. The defendant excepted generally and specially to the indictment and moved to quash the same. “Because it fails to show upon its face that ■an offense against the law has been committed, even if the allegations therein contained are true;” and further excepting to the indictment defendant moved to quash the same, ‘Because it is vague, indefinite and uncertain, in that it fails to…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the offense of bribery, and given two years in the penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal. Ap pellant made a motion to quash the indictment in this case, which was overruled by the court. The charging part of the indictment is as follows, to-wit: The said J. W. Peacock “did then and there unlawfully,, willfully, and corruptly bribe Gardner Morris, a witness, in this: The said. Gardner Morris was then and there a witness in a certain criminal cause pending in the District Court of San Saba County,…
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