Thompson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The indictment under which the appellant, Hie Thompson, has been convicted and sentenced to a year and a day in prison, accuses him of the crime of false swearing, committed during the trial of Archie Thompson and himself before the county judge of Muhlenberg county on the charge of “taking vegetables.”

In sufficient language the indictment sets forth the accusation and alleges that he testified that:

“On a certain date on which he was accused of having taken water melons from the patch of R. F. Sears he was not in that community but had…