George v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Omitting formal portions, the charging part of the indictment is as follows: “Whereupon it then and there became and was a material inquiry before said judge and jury in the trial of said judicial proceeding whether the. said R. L. George, Jr., who was present when the assault, alleged to have been made upon H. C. Walker by Dan J ones, was made, stated to E. J. Ward, and in the presence of said E. J. Ward, on the morning following the commission of said assault, that the…
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Omitting formal portions, the charging part of the indictment is as follows: “Whereupon it then and there became and was a material inquiry before said judge and jury in the trial of said judicial proceeding whether the. said R. L. George, Jr., who was present when the assault, alleged to have been made upon H. C. Walker by Dan J ones, was made, stated to E. J. Ward, and in the presence of said E. J. Ward, on the morning following the commission of said assault, that the party who made said assault upon H. C. Walker was a large man, and whether the said R. L. George, Jr., on the morning after…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years, and he appeals.
Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment on the ground “that the same charged no offense against the laws of the State, in that said indictment shows upon its face that the statement assigned as perjury was an immaterial statement, or a statement concerning an immaterial matter, not affecting any issue involved in the trial of the case on the trial of which said perjury is alleged to have been committed; (2) that the statement in…
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