State v. . Ricketts
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Perjury, tried before Buxton J. at Fall Term, 1875, of Richmond Superior Court. The indictment was found at Spring Term, 1875 of Anson Superior Court, and upon affidavit removed to Richmond county. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by the prisoner while testifying as a witness upon the trial of the issues in a divorce suit, tried at Anson Superior Court at Fall Term, 1874, to-wit: Martin Y. Horne v. Mary E. Horne.
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INDICTMENT for Perjury, tried before Buxton J. at Fall Term, 1875, of Richmond Superior Court. The indictment was found at Spring Term, 1875 of Anson Superior Court, and upon affidavit removed to Richmond county. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by the prisoner while testifying as a witness upon the trial of the issues in a divorce suit, tried at Anson Superior Court at Fall Term, 1874, to-wit: Martin Y. Horne v. Mary E. Horne. The petitioner in that case alleged adultery against his wife as ground for the application, and the defendant in her answer alleged adultery against the…
1Opinion of the CourtRodmaN, J.
We will examine the exceptions of the defendant in their order.
1. This was properly abandoned.
2. Martin Horne was a party to the divorce suit in which the alleged perjury was committed. He was allowed to testify to what the defendant had sworn on the trial of that action in respect to an occurrence between him (Martin) and one Fanny Horne, and that the defendant therein swore falsely. The defendant contends that the witness (Martin) was incompetent because of the rule that a prisoner on trial for perjury can be convicted only on the testimony of two witnesses, or of one witness supported by…
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