Waddle v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case it is made to appear that appel-

lant went before a justice of the peace and swore out a complaint against J. C. Hale, charging him with disposing of mortgaged property. Upon the examining trial it appears that appellant swore- that Hale owed him two notes, one for $650 and one for $80 and he had a mortagage to secure the payment of the $650 note. The predicate upon which the charge of perjury is sought to be based is, that in fact Hale did not owe him a note for $650, but only owed him the $80 note. A debt being established beyond the peradventure of a doubt, the…