COX v. STATE

No. 29634.

316 S.W.2d 891 (1958)

James E. COX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Polk Shelton, Douglass D. Hearne, Austin, Cofer & Cofer, by John D. Cofer, Austin, for appellant.

Les Procter, Dist. Atty., Austin, David S. McAngus, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for consenting to accept a bribe, with punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The charge, as laid in the indictment, was to the effect that appellant, as a member of the House of Representatives of this state, at the Regular Session of the 55th Legislature, did, as such legislative officer, unlawfully, wilfully, and corruptly consent to accept a bribe in the sum of five thousand dollars from Howard Harmon...

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