Epperson v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is false swearing; the punishment, four years. Two prior felony convictions were alleged for enhancement, but the court submitted only the first count of the indictment charging the primary offense.

Bess Burns testified that she was a notary public and that on the day charged in the indictment the appellant swore to a statement in writing to the effect that he had had only one compensation claim in his life and had collected money from an insurance company only on one occasion, in October, 1957, when he received $200.00 in cash and the sum of $34.00 a week…