Brown v. Territory of Oklahoma

Opinion of the court by

Burford, C. J.:

The plaintiff in error, John Brown, was prosecuted in the district court of Pawnee county for the crime of obtaining money under false pretense. He was acquitted of said charge. At the succeeding term of court an indictment was returned against Brown charging him with the crime, of perjury. It was alleged that upon the trial of the former cause he was sworn and testified as a witness in his own behalf, and that he gave certain testimony material to the issues therein which was known by him to be false. The cause is now in this court upon appeal from an…