Foreman v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The State proved by the justice of the peace that the appellant, after having been brought before said justice of the peace and duly sworn to make true answers to such questions as might be propounded to him touching violations of the penal laws of the State in Cherokee County, in answer to the question whether he had seen any crap shooting, card playing, or other gambling in July or August, 1902, at or about the Guinn Camp in Precinct Ho. 6, of Cherokee County, Texas, said…
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The State proved by the justice of the peace that the appellant, after having been brought before said justice of the peace and duly sworn to make true answers to such questions as might be propounded to him touching violations of the penal laws of the State in Cherokee County, in answer to the question whether he had seen any crap shooting, card playing, or other gambling in July or August, 1902, at or about the Guinn Camp in Precinct Ho. 6, of Cherokee County, Texas, said he had not seen any crap shooting, or any other gambling about Guinn’s Camp, or anywhere else in Cherokee County, in…
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Conviction of perjury. The indictment contains two assignments of perjury: the first assignment was not submitted to the jury. The second reads as follows: “It was a material inquiry before' the justice, whether the said Foreman (appellant) bad at or near Guinn’s Camp as aforesaid, then and there at any time recent or theretofore during the year 1902, seen Mel Thompson, Will Stafford, Leander Cleaver and Andrew Kennedy, or any one or more of said persons or any other person bet any money or valuable thing at a game played with dice called craps at a place that was not then and…
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- McMurtry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
- Higgins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898