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Murphy guilty of receiving a criminal gratuity (s201(g)), | conflict of interest (§203(a)), and conspiracy (§371). Pursuant to the court's instructions, the jury did not return a verdict on the interstate travel count ($1952) since they found Murphy not guilty on the bribery count.” Thompson was found guilty of bribery (s201(c)), 27 criminal gratuity (§201(g)), and conspiracy (§371). The | 7 jury found him not guilty on the conflict of intetest charge |: (§203(a)); Thompson was not charged with a travel act viola- tion. The key transaction in the Thompson-Murphy case was the transfer of $50,000 to Murphy in a briefcase on October 20, 1979. Under the court's instructions the jury's verdicts establish that each defendant knowingly received part of the money that was in that briefcase. The jury was instructed, "if a defendant did not receive part o£ that money then you must find him not guilty on this count: [bribery] as well as on the other substantive counts." Murphy did not testify, but through argument of counsel it was urged that Murphy did not know that there was money in the briefcase that was passed. Thompson did “testify and claimed he knew nothing whatsoever of the Murphy transaction and denied having ever received .any of its proceeds. Both contentions were rejected by the jury, 2H ay cane Day wee te ee