Maroney v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years. ■

Appellant insists that the judge who tried this case had no legal authority to do so. The bill shows the following facts: That FT. R. Lindsey was duly elected judge of the Forty-second Judicial District of Texas, which district at the time of his said election and up to the time of the creation of the Fifty-second Judicial District was composed of the counties of Comanche, Eastland, Shackelford, Jones, Callahan, Stephens and Taylor; and that was the…