McFarland v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

For many years the appellant, Edgar C. McFarland, lived and worked in the District of Columbia. Whether he changed his domicile to Maryland about September, 1945, though still employed in the District, was the crucial question of fact at his trial for perjury which resulted in the conviction of which he now complains.

In December, 1946, while testifying in his own behalf in a suit for divorce which he had filed in the United States District Court here, he swore that “continuously for the ten years next before this” he had lived at 1321 N Street, N. W. In due…