Evans v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted under indictment charging that he offered to bribe Hill Thomas, deputy sheriff, who had him under arrest and conveying him to jail. The offer to bribe consists in the following language, as set out in the indictment: “How much will you take to turn me loose and let me go and get away?” The language proved upon the trial as having been used by appellant, was: “How much will you take to turn me loose and let me go?”—omitting the expression charged in the indictment, “and get away.” It is claimed that this constitutes a variance. While this…