Cross v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of perjury and his punishment assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

The perjury was alleged to have been committed by appellant while testifying in a certain civil suit pending in the district court of Montgomery County wherein Mrs. E. E. Hensley et al. were plaintiffs and Joe Wiggins et al. were defendants, being a suit of trespass to try title to 160 acres of land, a part of the Alfonso Steel survey in said county, to which defendants claimed title by the statute of limitation of ten…