Roberts v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury and assessed the lowest punishment.

Appellant’s attorneys have filed a lengthy and forcible brief, which has had due consideration.

Prior to 1909 the stenographer’s Act authorized the stenographic report of the proceedings and testimony in question and answer form to be sent to this court as a statement of facts. After that law had been in effect for some time and this court had seen the workings of it, in Baird v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Rep., 322, said: "The Legislature should pass an amendment to the present stenographer’s law and require a…