State v. Morrough
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-ton, Judge. Arthur Morrough was convicted of perjury. From a judgment sustaining a motion in arrest of judgment and quashing the indictment, the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The state appealed from a judgment containing a motion in arrest of judgment, and asked that the judgment quashing the indictment be reversed, the court be ordered to reinstate the verdict, and that sentence be pronounced.
The defendant had been found guilty of perjury. The bill of information charged that on the 4th day of January in the year of our Lord 1913, he had feloniously committed corrupt perjury in the case of State v. Murrough, No. 6,095 of the district court; that the felonious, corrupt, and perjured evidence given by Murrough was on a material issue involved in the case on trial…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Rosebud v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906
- Braeutigam v. StateSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1899
- State v. GibsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1874
3Cited by1 opinion
- State v. VarnadoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1923