Garner v. State

HEEDEBSOE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of an offer to bribe an officer, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; and prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment contains two counts; one for offering to bribe D. H. Carpenter, sheriff of Camp County, who. held appellant as a prisoner, to permit him to escape from his custody. The other count charges that he offered said Carpenter a bribe not to report and have papers issued for him for having and carrying on and about his person a certain pistol. The conviction was general and can be applied to either…