The People v. Crabb

James W. Crabb was tried and convicted by a jury in the circuit court of Tazewell county for the crime of perjury and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has sued out this writ of error and the record is now before us for review.

The indictment consisted of five counts which charged, generally, that Crabb testified falsely under oath at the coroner’s inquest upon an inquiry into the cause of the death of his wife, Betty Collison Crabb, who was killed by a bullet wound inflicted between 2 :oo and 3 :oo o’clock in the morning of March 1, 1938. There is much testimony relative to…