CHILDRESS v. STATE

No. 38851.

398 S.W.2d 754 (1966)

Joe David CHILDRESS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 23, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Gray, Jack Bodiford, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Houston, Carl E. F. Dally, James E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and F. M. Stover, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for perjury; the punishment, enhanced by reason of two prior convictions less than capital, life imprisonment.

The prosecution grew out of certain alleged false testimony given by the appellant at a hearing held by Judge E. B. Duggan in the Criminal District Court of Harris County on September 28, 1964, to ascertain whether a confession had been used against the appellant in a trial for burglary in the year 1957 without...

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