Sanlin v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court, by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

The trial of the appellant, Elijah Sanlin, in the -court below under -an indictment accusing him of the crime of false swearing, resulted in a verdict from the jury finding him guilty thereof and fixing his punishment at confinement -of three years in the penitentiary. He was refused a new trial and after excepting to the overruling by the court of his motion and grounds therefor and to its entering of a judgment approving the ver-dlict, he, on the following -day-and. during the same term of court at which his trial occurred, filed a written…