State v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from, FranJdin District Court. Information against' Lewis for perjury. He had been previously charged and tried for falsely personating another, to-wit, one Evan Lewis, “and in said assumed name and character, and by means of said false representations and personation,” obtaining from the agent of the U. S. Express Co., “on the 7th day'of June 1869,” a package containing $950. He was tried on the information in that case on the 2d of December 1871, and on such trial,…
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Appeal from, FranJdin District Court. Information against' Lewis for perjury. He had been previously charged and tried for falsely personating another, to-wit, one Evan Lewis, “and in said assumed name and character, and by means of said false representations and personation,” obtaining from the agent of the U. S. Express Co., “on the 7th day'of June 1869,” a package containing $950. He was tried on the information in that case on the 2d of December 1871, and on such trial, as a witness in his own behalf, he testified that he “was not in the county of Franklin and city of Ottawa, on the 7th…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bjrewer, J.:
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a. Materiality of testfmonyj6
*1614. when evitimeaniplace is prima facie material. *160Defendant was convicted in the district court •of Franklin county of . perjury. From that conviction he appeals to this court. He complains of the instructions, and .that the verdict was not supported by the evidence. It may be doubtful whether the instructions are properly before us. They are not incorporated into any bill of exceptions. They were not excepted to. A series of some sixteen instructions, signed by the district judge, appears, which…
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