Willie Ray Harrell v. United States

WRIGHT, District Judge.

Appellant was convicted on each of three counts in an indictment charging perjury. 1 He asks for reversal of that conviction on the ground that certain instructions given to the jury by the trial court were improper, that the trial court determined the materiality of the alleged perjured testimony itself and refused to submit that issue to the jury, and that the admission, over objection, of certain testimony taken at the former trial in which the alleged perjury occurred was improper and prejudicial. For the reasons hereinafter assigned, the points raised by the…