Weaver v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hopkins. Tried below before Hon. B. W. Terhune. Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant, having been convicted of perjury, prosecutes this appeal.
Perjury is assigned upon .appellant’s alleged false testimony before the grand jury, in stating that one A. Sprinkles, on the 17th day of March, 1895, “did not play at a game with cards in a house on A. Sprinkles’ place, whereas in truth and in fact the said A. Sprinkles did, in Hopkins County, Texas, on the 17th day of-March, 1895, in a house on said A. Sprinkles’ place, play at a game with cards, which said statement so made by the said Chris Weaver before and to said grand jury as aforesaid was willfully…
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