Welburn, Jr. v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is perjury; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for seven years.

In a suit for divorce instituted by Mrs. Wineta Long Welburn against appellant, he testified under oath that he had not gone to the city of Boerne on the 25th of July, 1933, and there married Wineta Long. It was upon such testimony that the indictment herein charging perjury was predicated.

Mrs. Wineta Long Welburn testified on the present trial in substance as follows: She had for some time attended the Government Hill Methodist Church in San Antonio, of which appellant was pastor. Her…