Carden v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, charged with the offense of attempting to bribe an officer, and upon a trial he was convicted and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

S. P. Porter testified that when W. P. Carden (a brother of defendant) was placed on trial charged with murder, and he had been instructed to summon additional talesmen, he met defendant in a saloon adjoining the courthouse, who asked him if he had seen Frank Chatman, and upon him replying that he had not, defendant remarked he had given Chatman a list of names to be summoned; that he did…