MARTIN v. STATE

No. 37037.

395 S.W.2d 631 (1965)

James Bryson MARTIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 1965.

Certiorari Denied November 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde W. Woody, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Carl E. F. Dally and Gus J. Zgourdes, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, David Brooks Coffer, Jr., County Atty., Bryan, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


Certiorari Denied November 22, 1965. See 86 S.Ct. 307.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for bribery; the punishment, four years in the penitentiary and a fine of $2,500.

Appellant, James Bryson Martin, and Ross Evahn, David Hudson, E. R. Coffey, and R. M. Duren were jointly charged by indictment with the offense of bribery of one Clem McClelland, a probate judge of Harris County.

Motions for severance were filed in Criminal District Court...

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