Aaron v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for offering a bribe to Roy Hillin, Sheriff-elect of Crosby County, the indictment alleging that appellant offered Sheriff-elect Hillin $1,500 per month to thereby influence and induce him to omit to arrest or suppress violations of the local option liquor laws in Crosby County by seven men to be named by appellant; the punishment, 2 years in the penitentiary.

It was stipulated that Crosby County was a dry area.

It was stipulated that Roy Hillin was elected sheriff of Crosby County at the general election on November 7, 1950, and took his oath of office as…