State v. Hughes
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from San Saba. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The indictment in this case was evidently intended to charge the offense of offering to bribe a witness, which offense and its penalty is set forth in art. 310a of the Penal Code.
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Appeal from San Saba. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. The indictment in this case was evidently intended to charge the offense of offering to bribe a witness, which offense and its penalty is set forth in art. 310a of the Penal Code. There was no charge in the indictment that Brown, to whom the bribe was offered, had been served with process as a witness in a cause, or that he was offered a bribe to disobey a subpoena or other legal process, or to avoid the service of the same by secreting himself. Exceptions to the indictment were sustained, and the State appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Reeves, Associate Justice.
The article of the Criminal Code under which this indictment was found reads as follows: “If any person shall bribe, or offer to bribe, any witness in any case, either civil or criminal, to disobey a subpoena or other legal process, or. to avoid the service of the same by secreting himself, or by any other means, he shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less thafi two nor more than five years.” Paschal’s Dig., art. 1934.
We have been referred to no other provision having any relation to the offense charged in the indictment.
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