Case ID: tex-crim_76/html/0325-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Purna Cutbirth v. The State.
    No. 3424.
    Decided March 17, 1915.
    Perjury—Practice on Appeal.
    Where the same questions were raised in the instant appeal which were raised in a companion case, and the judgment in this cause is reversed and the cause remanded for the same error for which the companion ease is reversed, the question need not be reviewed.
    Appeal from the District Court of Taylor. Tried below before the Hon. Thomas L. Blanton.
    Appeal from a conviction of perjury; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary..
    The opinion states the case.
    
      J. M. Wagstaff and 8. P. Hardwiclce, for appellant.
    On question of general reputation: Tate v. State, 68 Texas Crim. Rep., 45, 150 S. W. Rep., 781; Cowden v. State, 68 Texas Crim. Rep., 62, 150 S. W. Rep., 779.
    On question of insufficiency of evidence: Pipes v. State, 9 S. W. Rep., 614.
    
      C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
    On question of materiality of matter assigned as perjury: Washington v. State, 23 Texas Crim. App., 336; Jackson v. State, 15 id., 579; Smith v. State, 27 id., 50; Garrett v. State, 37 Texas Crim. Rep., 198; Etheridge v. State, recently decided.
   PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for perjury. It is a companion case to that of Pleas Reed this day decided in an opinion by Judge Harper.

There was no evidence introduced in this case after the argument and charge as to the place where either the District or County Court was held, like there was in the Reed case. With that exception there is no material difference in the eases. Outside of that one question the same questions were raised in this which were raised in that.

It is necessary to reverse this case for the same error that the Reed case was reversed for. With that exception no error was committed in the trial of this case on any of the grounds complained of by appellant. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.