Haller v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of offering to bribe W. B. Roddy, a policeman in the city of Dallas.

The evidence introduced by the State would show that appellant was running a rooming house in Dallas that had the reputation of being a bawdy house. That officers Roddy and Erwin entered this house at night, investigating. Mr. Roddy says: “We went in one room and found this man Eichelberger and the negro woman, Lovie Boyd, in the bed together. That white man was E. M. Eichelberger, and the girl was named Lovie Boyd. We arrested them. My partner then went upstairs and I remained in the…