Smith v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is perjury; the punishment, two years.

The indictment herein charges the appellant with having testified falsely in a case in which he was tried in the county court of Gillespie County for seriously threatening to take the life of one Kurt Kramer. The false testimony alleged was that on October 23, 1949, he was not on the land belonging to Kurt Kramer and did not have a conversation with the said Kramer.

The indictment further alleges that at such trial it became material to inquire whether appellant was on said land or had such conversation.

Kramer, his wife and…