Bennett v. State

Willis Bennett, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the Circuit Court for Calhoun County at the Fall terra, 1912, for perjury, alleged to have been committed by him as a witness for his brother Hosea Bennett, who was then being tried for an alleged aggravated assault upon J. L. Cain. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted at the same term. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison for twelve months. He has brought the judgment here in writ of error, for review. A motion was made to quash the indictment, which was denied. The first ground of the motion is that “the…