Billingsley v. State

DAVIDSOH, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury in that he should have stated before the justice of the peace, in what is termed a “court of inquiry,” that he did not see Mart Davis with a pistol, and did not see him shoot a pistol. Subsequently appellant was brought before the same justice of the peace and made a contradictory statement under oath, to that averred as being false. The two statements were proved by the justice of the peace and a peace officer. Mart Davis testified that he and appellant, on the night of the supposed shooting of the pistol left the little town of…