Robinson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Freestone. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Rector. The case came to trial in April, 1876. The judge gave in charge to the jury the penalty prescribed in the Penal Code, to wit, a fine not exceeding $100. The penalty provided for in the act of 1873 is “not less than ten nor more than twenty times ” the claim speculated in.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
The indictment in this case charges the defendant with unlawfully purchasing jury scrip whilst he was the sheriff of Freestone county, and was brought under the provisions of Article 354 b of the Penal Code (Pasc. Dig., Art. 1983), which defines and fixes the punishment for-unlawfully dealing injury scrip and witness fees.
It seems, however, that this Article of the Penal Code was. repealed by the 1st section of an act approved March 30, 1874, entitled “An act to prevent speculations by officers,, or tax-officers, or agents, in county, city, and town contracts, and liabilities.” Acts…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1876