Deckard v. State

OPINION ON REMAND

CUMMINGS, Justice.

Following a bench trial, the appellant, Grady Deckard, was convicted of aggravated perjury and sentenced to five years’ confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 37.03 (Vernon 1994). On appeal, Deckard disputes the sufficiency of the evidence showing his in-court testimony was false.

I. Factual Background

In the fall of 1985, Deckard was being detained in the Brazos County Jail on attempted murder charges. During his detention, Deckard informed a jail administrator that Robert Black, a…