Henry v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Falls. Tried below before Hon. Sam R. Scott. Appeal from a conviction of perjury; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion sets out the indictment substantially. Ho statement required. . :
1Opinion of the Court
HEHDERSOH, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed, at two years confinement in the penitentiary; hence this appeal.
The indictment is in the ordinary form, charging the perjury as being committed by appellant on a trial of himself in the District Court of Falls County on a charge of assault with intent to murder one T. J. Kemper. Appellant insists that the indictment is defective, because it fails to show how the alleged predicate for perjury was or became material. The indictment, after setting out the court, etc., in which the perjury is alleged to have been…
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