Downing v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—In this case the appellant was indicted, charged with the offense of perjury. Upon a trial he was convicted and sentenced, to five years confinement in the penitentiary, hence this appeal.

In the record there are about fifty bills of exception. As several of them present matters which we think require a reversal of this case, we will not review each of the bills, but only such of them as might affect another trial.

1. The first bill complains of the action of the court in refusing to quash the indictment. It appears from the record that appellant, before maturity, purchased two…