Blackstone v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Perjury is the offense; the punishment, three years in the penitentiary.

Perjury was assigned upon the testimony of appellant while testifying before the grand jury that she “had not slept with and co-habited with the said Clifton Clary” and that she “had not spent any night or nights with Clifton Clary in any tourist courts or cabins in San Angelo, Texas.” Such testimony was alleged to be false because “in truth and in fact the said Mildred Blackstone and the said Clifton Clary did sleep together and co-habited as man and wife prior to January 31, 1948; and . . . the said…