Campbell v. State

The defendant in error was convicted in the Court of Record of Escambia County, Florida, of the offense of perjury and sentenced to serve a period of two years at hard labor in the State prison.

From judgment of conviction he brought writ of error.

The assignment of error was, that the Court erred in overruling the defendant's motion for a new trial.

The motion for a new trial was in the following language, to-wit:

"Comes now the defendant, Mathis Campbell, by his attorney, and moves the Court to vacate and set aside the verdict rendered herein and grant unto him a new trial for the following…