Starnes v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for perjury; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged in this case with perjury in that he swore, on the trial of one Herne, that Herne was not in Rhinehardt, Texas, at about 2 P. M. on November 2, 1932, when and where an assault was made upon one Riggs with intent to rob, — but was at another and different place, to-wit: in Dallas, Texas, at said time. Herne was convicted, and this indictment against appellant for perjury followed. On the trial hereof the state was permitted to ask the trial judge, who was a witness for the state, if the…