Ferguson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
■ Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant. Tried below before •Hon. S. P. Greene. ' This appeal is from a conviction for perjury, the punishment assessed •being-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged defendant with perjury, committed by him as a witness in a criminal case, viz: the case of The State v. Martin Mc-Grath, in the District Court of Tarrant County. No further statement necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and given five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. There is no bill of exceptions or assignment of errors in the record. The only question presented in the case for our consideration is as to the chargé of the court, which is complained of in the appellant’s motion for a new trial. The charge in question, after enumerating the various grounds on which the perjury is alleged in the indictment, proceeds as follows: “"Which said statements the State charges were false, and that the same were wilfully and deliberately made…
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