McHenry v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case R. B. Green, who was a deputy sheriff, testified that after the arrest of Tom Flemming on 'a charge of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and while he was on his way to jail with Flemming, appellant approached him and offered first to pay him thirty dollars to release Flemming. Hpon him declining to do so, appellant then offered him the sum of fifty dollars, and then sixty dollars to release Flemming, all of which it seems he declined, and Flemming was placed in jail.

Hpon this testimony appellant was indicted charged with attempting to bribe Green to release a prisoner,…