State v. . Thompson

The jurors, etc., present that John Thompson, etc., did unlawfully commit perjury upon the trial of an action in the Mayor's Court in the city of Wilmington in said county, wherein the State of North Carolina was plaintiff and John Thompson was defendant, by falsely asserting on oath, "in substance, as follows, to wit: `About 8 o'clock on 25 February I was between Schulkin and Dennis's stores; a man passed in about six or seven feet of me and made an oath; he had a gun in his hand; he walked to the corner and stood up by a post; in a few minutes a car came up to the end of the switch, and as…