Hill v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The conviction was for perjury, the false statements assigned as perjury appearing, in substance, in the statement of the case; and the penalty assessed against the appellant being a term of five years in the penitentiary. B. H. Turner, district clerk of Bell county, Texas, was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn. The conviction was for perjury, the false statements assigned as perjury appearing, in substance, in the statement of the case; and the penalty assessed against the appellant being a term of five years in the penitentiary. B. H. Turner, district clerk of Bell county, Texas, was the first witness for the State. He identified the books in evidence as the records of the district court of Bell county, Texas. Those records showed the proceedings had upon the trial of the cause of The State of Texas v. W. A. Hunt,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for perjury. W. H. Hunt, jr., was indicted and tried for illegally marking and branding a certain calf alleged to be the property of the appellant. Upon this trial appellant was a witness, and his testimony then given is assigned as perjury. Hunt w&s tried *584on April 30, 1884, and it appears from a bill of exceptions that Hunt sued Hill for the calf before a justice of the peace, in which suit Hill recovered a judgment for costs. This suit was instituted October 33, 1883. The indictment was presented against Hunt October 11, 1883.
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