Scott v. State

Appellant was convicted of perjury, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment, omitting formal parts, alleges "it then and there became and was a material inquiry before said grand jury and necessary to the due administration of the criminal laws of the State of Texas and the ends of public justice whether he, the said Walter Scott, `has' theretofore at any time within the last two years next preceding the said 2nd day of September, 1912, in Hamilton County, Texas, or within 400 yards of the boundary line between Hamilton County, Texas, and…