Melton v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant prosecuted this appeal from a conviction for perjury. He has a great number of bills of exceptions. It is unnecessary to state or discuss them as it is believed none of them present any reversible. error except his fourteenth, the one we will discuss._

The indictment based the charge of perjury against appellant wherein he swore before the grand jury that he had not played a game of cards in Hale County between January 1 and February 16, 1916, and that he had seen no one during that time play a game of cards. The State alleged that his testimony was false in both…