SAUNDERS v. STATE

No. 31935.

341 S.W.2d 173 (1960)

J. Byron SAUNDERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglass D. Hearne, Cofer & Cofer, Austin, for appellant.

Les Proctor, Dist. Atty., David S. McAngus, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is perjury; the punishment, two years.

We are met at the outset with the serious question of whether false testimony given before the Legislative Investigating Committee of the 1957 Regular Session of the Texas Legislature constitutes the offense of perjury or false swearing. The Legislature of this State, in its wisdom, has created two separate and distinct offenses covering the subject of bearing false witness and has...

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