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DEVINE v. STATE

No. 25487.

244 S.W.2d 232 (1951)

DEVINE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 19, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted Musick, Bell, Dyche & Bell, Spurgeon E. Bell, all of Houston, for appellant.

Sam W. Davis, Cr. Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Cr. Dist. Atty., both of Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for accepting a bribe while serving in his official capacity as a police officer of the City of Houston. The sentence was five years in the penitentiary.

The prosecuting witness Clarice Gears operated a dine, dance and drinking place in the City of Houston. Her business seems to have been chiefly at nighttime, with a hangover desire to extend the hours fixed by Houston's curfew law. Testifying in behalf of the state...

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