Sherwood v. State

*217Arterburn, J.

The appellants and Arthur J. Mo gilner were charged by affidavit in two counts with the crime of conspiracy to bribe Virgil W. Smith,' a commissioner of the State Highway Department of the State of Indiana, and with bribery of such official. The defendant Mogilner changed his plea from not guilty to guilty at the time the trial began and became a witness for the prosecution. The appellants were tried by a jury in Marion County and were found guilty and were each sentenced for a term of two to twenty-one years in the Indiana State Prison and fined $15,000.00 on both counts of the…