Cuellar v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for perjury; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant swore under oath that he did not tell one Bochat three certain things fully set out in the indictment and referred to in the charge of the court. It was alleged that when appellant testified that he did not tell Bochat these things, he committed perjury.

It is demanded in Art. 723, C. C. P., as a necessary predicate to a conviction for perjury, that the falsity of the alleged perjured statement be established by two credible witnesses, or one credible witness…