Gray v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is perjury, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The charge grew out of testimony given by appellant in a civil suit. John Salmon fell under a freight train which was passing through Fayetteville, Texas. His feet were mashed. The mother of the injured party brought suit against the railroad company. Appellant testified on the trial of that suit that he was in Fayetteville on the occasion when young Salmon was injured; that as the train passed the crossing where Salmon was standing a swinging car door struck the injured party and knocked him…