Jones paid Sullivan, the chief of the Addison Police Department, $6,400 in exchange for Sullivan's cooperation in allowing Jones and others to bring marijuana by airplane into the Addison airport without police intervention. Instead of performing the requested service, Sullivan arrested Jones. The $6,400 was turn over to the district attorney's office qnd was introduced intp evidence in the subsequent trial in which Jones was tried for and convicted of briebery. After his conviction , Jones assigned his alleged claim to the $4,600 to Melvyn Bruder. Based on the assignement, Bruder brought suit against the state of Texas to obtain possesion of the money. Will he be successful?