The Jefferson County district attorney’s office has been operating most of the year under an acting district attorney. That’s because the man Jefferson County voters elected in November, Charles Todd Henderson, was indicted on a perjury charge just a few days before he was to take office. The exact allegation was unclear at the time. But now that a transcript has been released from the court case in question, Alabama Media Group columnist John Archibald says it doesn’t look good for Henderson.