Cast v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for perjury; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The perjury charged against the appellant is assigned upon his testimony before the grand jury wherein he testified that he saw James Martin at the Crown Jewelers in Sinton, San Patricio County, Texas, sometime prior to May 4, 1955, return two diamond rings to Fred White. The indictment further alleged that such testimony was deliberately given and known by appellant to be false.

The grand jury, at the time of the statement assigned as perjury, was investigating the disappearance of two diamond rings…