Blakemore v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Ok-mulgee county on a charge of perjury and was sentenced to serve a term of 8 years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that defendant was called as a witness for the state in a certain prosecution for petit larceny before a justice of the peace. On being called by the state, he testified that certain automobile casings, the alleged subject of larceny, were taken from an automobile in his possession without his knowledge or consent. He was later called as a witness for the defendant and…