Turner v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Brown. Tried below before Hon. W. J. Wingate. This is an appeal from a conviction in the court below on an indictment for perjury, wherein the punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction of perjury.
Omitting the formal parts and inducements, the charge as contained in the indictment is as follows, to-wit: “Whereupon it then and there became and was a material inquiry before said justice of the peace, and necessary for the due administration of. the criminal laws of said State, whether he, the said Will Turner, had seen O. J. Beynolds, Jim Derrick, and Ben Tanner, on or about the 23d day of Hovember, 1890, in Brown County, Texas, play at a game with cards in a public place; and he, the said Will Turner, did on the day…
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