State v. Mutch

Anderson, J.-

An indictment was returned by the grand jury of Black Hawk county, Iowa, on the 16th day of September, 1930, charging the defendant-appellant, Alex Mutch, with the crime of perjury; the defendant being charged with the commission of the crime of perjury by testifying as a witness falsely upon the trial of a case entitled State of Iowa v. Jacob Luther Manly, then pending and being tried in the district court of Black Hawk county, Iowa; the testimony of the defendant charged as perjury being as follows:

“That on or about March 11th, 1930, he (Alex Mutch) cashed a check for E. C.…