Carter v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is perjury. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of three years.

The record shows that appellant was a member of-the jury before whom Vincent Vallone was tried in the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Harris County,- Texas, for the murder of J. I. Thomas. The jury found Vallone guilty of murder with malice and assessed his punishment at confinement in the State penitentiary for life. Vallone, in due time, filed a motion for a new trial and subsequently an amended motion for a new trial in which he set up, among other grounds,…