Murff v. State

PBEHDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury and the lowest penalty assessed against him.

The indictment herein was filed January 17, 1914. It charged perjury in two counts. The first was not submitted. He was tried alone-under the second. It charged the perjury to have been committed on May 30, 1913, in a trial wherein he was a witness in his own behalf in which he was charged with rape on Viola Johnson, alleged to have been committed on or about January 19,1913. This count is quite lengthy,— more than five typewritten pages. It is unnecessary to copy it. The allegations…