Handley v. State

The defendant Frank Handley was convicted in the district court of Woodward county of the offense of attempted bribery of a public officer; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of five years imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and has appealed to this court.

The information filed against the defendant reads as follows (omitting the caption) :

“Now comes James G. Young, county attorney, in and for' the state and county aforesaid; and gives the court to know and be informed that one Elmer A. Nelson, late of the county of Woodward and state of Oklahoma, on or about the 27th day…