State v. Barwholtz

STORCKMAN, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of attempted bribery and, in accordance with the verdict, was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for ten days and ordered to pay a fine of $1,000, from which judgment he has appealed.

Mack Barnholtz, the defendant, operated a tavern and restaurant known as Lindy’s in an unincorporated area of St. Louis County. On August 21, 1954, at about 2:05 a.m., Melvin Cottom and Gilbert Henry *809Scheu, deputy sheriffs in St. Louis County, went into defendant’s place of business. They were in uniform and wearing their badges of office. They saw two…