Brown v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at • confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years; hence this appeal.

The only question that requires notice is involved in the charge of the court, and the special requested charge, which was refused by the court, on a vital issue in the case. The indictment contains but one count, and but one assignment in that count for perjury. The indictment alleges, after setting out the preliminaries, that then and there “it became and was a material inquiry before said court in said judicial proceedings whether…