Steber v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Rusk. Tried below' before the Hon. J. Gr. Hazelwood. The material facts are sufficiently disclosed in the opinion of this court. A term of two years in the penitentiarv was the punishment assessed against the appellant.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for “false swearing,” and the false swearing was assigned upon a statement or declaration made by appellant in an affidavit before the county clerk, for the purpose of obtaining a marriage license for one Jesse Wells and one Savanah Stovall to marry; the false matter assigned consisting in a statement contained in said affidavit “ that Savanah Stovall’s mother was willing for Savanah to marry Jesse Wells,” said Savanah being at the time only fifteen years of age.
Many of the questions raised in the assignment of errors and…
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