Etheridge v. State

Appellant was convicted of perjury and assessed the lowest punishment.

1. Perjury is assigned on alleged materially false testimony given by appellant on his own trial in the County Court, wherein he was charged with unlawfully, etc., betting and wagering at a game played with dice, towit, craps. This court on January 6, 1915, reversed that case because no information was preferred, based on the complaint therein, — holding that an information was essential, that he could not waive the information and by agreement be tried legally in an original proceeding in the County Court on the complaint…