Taylor v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At the regular January term, 1933, of the Whitley circuit court its grand jury indicted appellant and defendant therein, John Taylor, for false swearing, committed when he theretofore testified as a witness for defendant at the trial of a murder prosecution pending in that court of Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Shelton. In that prosecution the homicide, with which Shelton was accused, occurred at a bridge across Jellico creek, known as “Walker Mill bridge,” and appellant herein testified at that trial that he and his brother, Dewey Taylor,…