Allen v. State

This conviction is for perjury. The indictment charged perjury before the grand jury of Titus county in making under oath therein a false statement by appellant that he had bought whisky from John Lennox. Some of the grand jurors testified to the facts, in detail, showing that appellant appeared before the grand, jury; that the oath was duly administered, and that appellant gave the testimony set out in the indictment.

The record shows that the trial was had at the June term of the district court of Titus county in 1917, and¡ that the indictment was returned in said court at that term, it…