Harding v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is cattle theft; the punishment, ten years.

*555Appellant’s ground of error number one is that the trial court erred in failing to grant him a new trial because he discovered that one of the State’s witnesses had given perjured testimony at appellant’s trial. Appellant contends that the witness gave perjured testimony after being threatened by a deputy sheriff with prosecution for perjury arising out of another case unless she testified in the manner in which he directed her. On cross-examination appellant’s counsel questioned the witness regarding a conversation…