Bigham v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged with accepting a bribe, and by the jury given a penalty of two years in the penitentiary.

The facts proven by the State show that appellant was a deputy supervisor of the oil and gas department of the Railroad Commission, and as such was stationed in the area embraced by the latan East Howard County field. R. J. Kelly was vice-president of the Shasta Oil Company, and was a resident of Midland County, in which area such company owned a large number of producing oil wells.. These wells, under the rules and regulations of the Commission, had a certain allowable…