State v. Heed

Waghee, Judge,

delivered tlie opinion of the court.

The defendant was indicted in the Mercer County Circuit Court for perjury, aird convicted of that crime.

The material charge in the indictment was, that on a trial before a justice of the peace, wherein the defendant was plaintiff, and one Willis Campbell was defendant, the plaintiff swore that on a certain occasion Campbell drove through his enclosed field. The only direct testimony to the falsity of the defendant’s oath was given by Campbell; but there was some other testimony which had a tendency to corroborate or sustain him. Defendant also…