Higgins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
4. Because the issue contained in the indictment on which the court limited his charge was too indefinite and general to form the basis for perjury. In view of the disposition made of the case on this appeal, no general statement is required.
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOR", Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
The indictment contains a number of assignments, but inasmuch as the prosecution proceeded upon one assignment of perjury,it is not necessary to notice the others. This assignment is in these words: “It became and was a material inquiry whether the said John Higgins had seen a game'played with cards in a certain outhouse situated in the town of Quinlan, in Hunt County, Texas, on or about the 3d day of October, 1896, where people did then and there…
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