Legal Opinion
United States v. William Carey Edwards, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 19, 1971No. 20327PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
This is a direct criminal appeal from a perjury conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1621. We affirm the judgment of conviction.
On December 17, 1969, the defendant, Edwards, testified at the trial of Walter Patrick Peyson in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Peyson was being tried under an indictment brought under 18 U.S.C. § 3150 for failure to appear before that court for trial on December 3, 1968, after being released on bond.
In that trial for failure to appear, Peyson testified that he did not inform his wife, or the government, of his…
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