Scoggins v. State

Citations

• 18 Tex. Ct. App. 298
• 1885 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 95

Syllabus

<p>Bribery.— Indictment charged that appellant offered to bribe a certain witness to avoid the service of a subpoena. The defense excepted because it did not allege that the witness had been served with a subposna, nor allege that he was offered a bribe to disobey a subpoena by secreting himself or other means, nor allege the existence or issuance of a subpoena. Held, that the exceptions were properly overruled, and the indictment is a good one for the offense of offering to bribe a witness to avoid the service of a subpoena. If the indictment, however, had been for offering to bribe a witness to disobey a subpoena or other legal process, it should have alleged the issuance or existence of the subpoena or other process.</p>