Rives v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Tom Green County for the offense of false swearing, and his punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the appellant on June 21, 1922, made an application to the Federal Land Bank of Houston for a loan in the sum of §10,000, which application was on that date sworn to by him before Alpha Hamelin, a notary public of Tom Green County, Texas. It appears from the record that said application blank was the form prescribed by the Federal Farm Loan Board, and when sworn to by the appellant the…