Weeaks v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for perjury; the punishment, two years.

Perjury was assigned upon the testimony of appellant given on June 21, 1954, in a cause pending in the district court of Kendall County, Texas, wherein he was sworn as a witness in his own behalf and testified that he had never been convicted of a felony in the State of Texas or any other state in the United States, whereas in truth and in fact he had been convicted of felony theft in Caldwell County, Texas, in October 1953.

*227The indictment alleged that in said cause appellant was duly and legally charged by indictment in…