Mares v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The perjury was predicated on his alleged false testimony in the County Court of Uvalde County, wherein he was charged and tried for unlawfully betting and wagering at a certain gaming table and bank, towit, a monte bank. The two particulars of false testimony charged to have been given by him on the trial of his County Court case was, in one that he testified he was not present at the house of one Gregoria Gonzales in the town of Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas, on the night of June…