Brown v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for perjury with punishment fixed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

This is the second appeal. The opinion upon the first will be found reported in 95 Tex. Crim. Rep. 343, 254 S. W. 995.

On the 2d day of November, 1921, appellant was tried upon an indictment charging him with the ‘unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquor. He testified that he had no whiskey in his automobile at the time he was arrested by the officers, nor during the time they were pursuing him in an effort to effect his arrest. Perjury was assigned upon these statements it being…