BLACKSTONE v. STATE

No. 24527.

225 S.W.2d 184 (1949)

BLACKSTONE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 14, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde Vinson, San Angelo, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


DAVIDSON, Judge.

Perjury is the offense; the punishment, three years in the penitentiary.

Perjury was assigned upon the testimony of appellant while testifying before the grand jury that she "had not slept with and co-habited with the said Clifton Clary" and that she "had not spent any night or nights with Clifton Clary in any tourist courts or cabins in San Angelo, Texas." Such testimony was alleged to be false because "in truth and in fact the said Mildred...

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