Powitzky v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is perjury; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Pat Patterson, a deputy sheriff, and E. N. Martin, a highway patrolman, arrested appellant during the night of August 29, 1935, for operating an overloaded truck. At the time appellant was arrested Patterson searched him and secured a manifest from his purse. After appellant had been incarcerated in jail he filed a complaint against Patterson charging him with having stolen $600 from him. On the 11th of December, 1935, the grand jury of Polk County returned an indictment against appellant in…