Childress v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for perjury; the punishment, enhanced by reason of two prior convictions less than capital, life imprisonment.

The prosecution grew out of certain alleged false testimony given by the appellant at a hearing held by Judge E. B. Duggan in the Criminal District Court of Harris County on September 28, 1964, to ascertain whether a confession had been used against the appellant in a trial for burglary in the year 1957 without it having been properly determined to be voluntary.

It was charged in the indictment that in the course of such judicial proceeding it…