McCrady v. State

316 S.W.2d 408 (1958)

Thomas Dalton McCRADY, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29861.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 25, 1958.

Lumpkin & Watson, Amarillo, for appellant.

Wayne Bagley, Dist. Atty., Amarillo, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is offering a bribe to an officer to permit a prisoner in his custody to escape; the punishment, two years.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment reads as follows:

"* * * did then and there unlawfully, willfully, and corruptly offer to bribe Don Smith, who was then and there a…