Scoggins v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Brown. Tried below before the Hon. T. B. Wheeler. The conviction was for the offense of offering to bribe a wdtness in a criminal proceeding. The penalty imposed was a term of two years in the State penitentiary. II. L. Ilefflefinger was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Brown. Tried below before the Hon. T. B. Wheeler. The conviction was for the offense of offering to bribe a wdtness in a criminal proceeding. The penalty imposed was a term of two years in the State penitentiary. II. L. Ilefflefinger was the first witness for the State. He testified that lie was at his father’s house in Brown county, Texas, on the first Sunday after the district court of Brown county convened, in March, 1884, which was about the 30th day of the month. The defendant, with another man who was unknown to the witness, rode up to the fence, called…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
Scoggins, appellant, was convicted for offering to bribe one M. L. Hefflefinger to avoid the service of a subpoena. Defendant moved to quash the indictment because it did not allege that Hefflefinger had been served with a subpoena or other process, or .that he was offered a bribe to disobey a subpoena or other legal proc*301ess, by secreting himself or by any other means. The indictment is not obnoxious to this objection, for it not only sets forth facts constituting the offense, but charges in terms that defendant offered to bribe the witness to avoid the process of the district…
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