Dial v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge O’Rear

Reversing.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of subornation of perjury. He is an attorney at law. It was charged that he corruptly procured one Frank Mitchell, alias J. W. Keys, to swear falsely as to certain material evidence as a witness in a suit for divorce between Fred Dorste and wife, lately pending in the Kenton Circuit court, in which appellant appeared as attorney for Dorste.

*33Mitchell, alias Keys, had been indicted for perjury in the same court and convicted, under his plea of guilty. Judgment was pronounced and entered upon the verdict. At the…