Rogers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Coryell. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straughan. This appeal is from a conviction for perjury, wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment for five years in the penitentiary. The leading features of the case, as made by the evidence, are concisely but clearly and sufficiently stated in the latter portion of the court’s opinion herein.
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Appeal from the District Court of Coryell. Tried below before Hon. J. S. Straughan. This appeal is from a conviction for perjury, wherein the punishment was assessed at imprisonment for five years in the penitentiary. The leading features of the case, as made by the evidence, are concisely but clearly and sufficiently stated in the latter portion of the court’s opinion herein. The perjury was assigned upon the testimony of the defendant given at a coroner’s inquest upon the body of one Alf Smith. Woodward, the Justice of the Peace, who held the inquest, testified: That defendant was…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant was convicted in the court below of perjury, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary. The appellant assigns as error that the court permitted the witness, Alvin Hope, to state that, if Frank Rogers, appellant, testified as follows, to-wit: “I heard a shot, and got up in my night clothes, and went to the old bank corner, and when I got there I heard a sort of groaning and scuffling noise in the direction of the Saunders bank corner. I walked in the street over on this side of the square to a place where I could see under that cotton shed,…
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