Dodson v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is perjury; the punishment, three years.

County Attorney Finley testified that the appellant came tó his office and signed a complaint charging Mary Ida Dodson, his former wife, with passing as true a forged instrument. The instrument which was the basis for that complaint was a note in the sum of $180 payable to the Hermit State Bank which bore three names as makers, one of which was appellant’s, and the appellant told Finley that he had not signed the same and knew nothing of its existence until it became due.

Finley testified further that the grand jury…