Morris v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The gist of the State’s testimony was that the defendant had made a sworn written statement before a justice of the peace, who was holding an examining court to inquire into the theft of some cotton seed; that Rastus Davis had rode up to where defendant and one Will Eluting were stopping for lunch and feeding their horses; that Davis was riding one of Eluting’s horses; that Eluting got on the horse and rode toward his home leaving his wagon with Davis and that then the…
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The gist of the State’s testimony was that the defendant had made a sworn written statement before a justice of the peace, who was holding an examining court to inquire into the theft of some cotton seed; that Rastus Davis had rode up to where defendant and one Will Eluting were stopping for lunch and feeding their horses; that Davis was riding one of Eluting’s horses; that Eluting got on the horse and rode toward his home leaving his wagon with Davis and that then the defendant and Davis got the cotton seed as set out in the indictment. That defendant plead guilty to the theft of the cotton…
1Opinion of the Court
HEEDERSOE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.
Inasmuch, as the disposition of the case depends on the validity of the indictment, we here set out that portion of the same to which objection was made. The grand jurors present “that on or about the 22nd day of October, One Thousand Nine Hundred three, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the county of Fisher, and State of Texas, before J. B. Green, Justice of the peace in and for precinct No. 1, in Fisher County,…
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