Onstott v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of false swearing and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

The evidence amply supports the verdict of guilty. The bills of exceptions in regard to the evidence adduced about appellant having, prior to the commission of this offense, obtained license for the same-parties in McLennan County, present no error, inasmuch as the defendant on cross-examination of the first witness injected this issue in the case, and then when he took the stand in his own behalf, in his direct examination went voluntarily into this matter…