Legal Opinion

Stovall v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 12, 1924No. 7341PublishedCited by 10 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

The indictment alleges that appellant was a County Commissioner of Hill County, and that there was pending before the Commissioners Court the letting of a contract for the construction of roads in Road District Numbers 3, 6, 7, 10 and 12 in said county, and also the matter of the sale of bonds theretofore issued by the said Road Districts; that appellant agreed to accept from one W. S. Bibb, Jr. a bribe in the sum of $7000 upon condition that appellant would vote and advocate in said court the sale of the bonds, and letting of such contract to Bibb & Hughes, a firm composed of…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. State v. PattersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
  2. Sorrell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1914
  3. State v. GoddardSupreme Court of Missouri · 1901
  4. Faulkner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1901
  5. Randle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Whitehead v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1956
  2. Runnels v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1948
  3. United States v. Francisco Colorado CessaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2017
  4. Pope v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1934
  5. McNeal v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1926

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