Laird v. State

Appellant was convicted of perjury and assessed the lowest punishment.

If this court had jurisdiction of this cause, some interesting, and perhaps difficult, questions would have to be decided. However, because we have reached the conclusion that this court has no jurisdiction, the decision of these questions is pretermitted.

The Assistant Attorney General has made a motion to dismiss this cause, because this court has lost, if it ever had, jurisdiction thereof. This motion is based upon an uncontroverted state of facts, shown by the transcript and various affidavits. These are the facts:

The…