Weathers v. State

William Weathers was indicted for perjury in the Ripley Circuit Court. The indictment states, that on the *27927th of October, in the year 1828, on the trial of a certain issue, in the Ripley Circuit Court, wherein Gardner Woodbury was plaintiff, and Daniel Ross, Samuel Hodges, and Reuben Hodges were defendants, duly joined on the plea of payment to a certain note in writing under seal, regularly executed by the said defendants, William Weathers appeared as a witness for the defendants, and took his corporal oath, &c. to speak the truth, &c. touching the matters in question in the issue joined as…