Burleson v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

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

The appellant challenges the validity of the indictment on the ground that it does not charge an offense.

The perjury assigned is appellant’s testimony given at Hill’s trial that he and not Hill had stolen the automobile.

Omitting the formal parts of the indictment, the pertinent portions are as follows:

THE ISSUE: “whereupon it then and there became and was a material in quiry before the .Said Judge and jury in the trial of said judicial proceeding, whether the defendant Jackie Carver Hill charged by indictment in…