MURPHY v. STATE

No. 36665.

378 S.W.2d 326 (1964)

L. D. MURPHY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 29, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Erisman, Longview, Jim D. Bowmer, Bob Burleson, Skelton, Bowmer, Courtney & Burleson, Temple (on appeal only), for appellant.

J. O. Duncan, Dist. Atty., Gilmer, Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen., Austin, Cecil C. Rotsch, Robert Flowers and Robert O. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gens., Austin, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the substantive offense of conspiring with one E. W. Scates to bribe Mathews to induce him to conduct a false inclination survey on a certain oil well located on the Adkins lease; the punishment, two years.

The facts stated most favorably from the State's standpoint are as follows: Robert Mathews, an employee of the Texas Railroad Commission who worked under the supervision of appellant, the District Engineer for the Commission...

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