Owens v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Williamson. The parties were freedmen. The defense claimed to have won the money at cards, and not by robbery.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The appellant was indicted on a charge of robbery, preferred by Ned Johnson.
Had the prosecuting witness been on trial, the evidence would have been conclusive to convict him of perjury. His statement is unsupported in any material *362point, and he is impeached by overwhelming evidence. He denies playing at cards with defendant on the day of the alleged robbery; six witnesses swear positively to their playing; some of them to the fact of Johnson’s telling Owens that he had won all except forty dollars of his money, and at the same time insisting upon continuing the play. Every syllable of the…
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