Sloan v. Gilbert

JUDGE GOFER

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action brought by the appellant against the appellee for slander, in charging him with having committed the crime of peijury in testifying as a witness in court.

The appellee admitted that he had spoken the words charged in the petition, and averred that they were true.

Verdict and judgment having been rendered against the *52appellant, he prosecutes this appeal, and complains that the court erred to his prejudice in giving and refusing instructions to the jury.

The materiality of that part of the plaintiff’s testimony charged to have been…