Marvin v. State

The appellant was convicted of perjury, filed a motion for a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment which were overruled. Exceptions were saved at the trial to the giving and refusal to give instructions as to the law, but we will not discuss those instructions in detail. The indictment contains the following assignments of perjury: “That on the trial of the cause of the State of Arkansas v. Geo. A. Marvin for bastardy, in the county court of Sebastian county, on the 2d day of July, 1889, it became and was a material question, whether Geo. A. Marvin was, on the 8th day of May, 1888, at…