Woodson v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Gustav Cook. The conviction in this case was for false swearing, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of two years in the penitentiary. A. E. Eailey was the first witness for the State. He testified that, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1886, he was a duly elected, qualified and acting justice of the peace, in and for Harris county, Texas.
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Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Galveston. Tried below before the Hon. Gustav Cook. The conviction in this case was for false swearing, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of two years in the penitentiary. A. E. Eailey was the first witness for the State. He testified that, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1886, he was a duly elected, qualified and acting justice of the peace, in and for Harris county, Texas. On that day the defendant sent word to the witness to call upon him and swear him to an affidavit. Witness waited upon the defendant, who presented an…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
With regard to the rulings of the court in changing the venue of this cause, and upon the defendant’s plea to the jurisdiction, it is unnecessary that we should notice them further than to refer to the decision of this court in Bohannon v. The State, 14 Texas Court of Appeals, 271, where precisely the same questions arose, and after an elaborate discussion were determined adversely to the positions urged by defendant’s counsel in this case.
It was not error to permit the State’s witness Bailey to testify that he was a justice of the peace of Harris county, and as such…
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