Legal Opinion

Grady v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 15, 1905No. 3170PublishedCited by 1 opinion

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

HEEDERSOF,

Judge.—Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at four years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.

Appellant questions the conviction on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence. He" insists that our statute requires in cases of perjury, “that no person shall be convicted, except upon the testimony of two credible witnesses or of one credible witness strongly corroborated by other evidence as to the falsity of defendant’s statement under oath, or upon his own confession in open court,” and that the proof here does not come up to the…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Melton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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