Powell v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury, and given five years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The record shows that the appellant was indicted on a charge of having committed perjury in swearing to a motion for anew trial in a certain case pending against himself and others before one F. A. Fenner, a Justice of the Peace of Victoria County. The affidavit on which the perjury was predicated was taken before A. S. Thurmond, a notary public, and was an affidavit for a new trial of said case. The appellant in the case, with others, was sued on a convict’s bond; and the…