State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; Edward Thomas Lewis, Judge. Jim Williams was found guilty of perjury. Prom an order sustaining a motion in arrest of judgment, the state appeals.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
The defendant was indicted for perjury.
He was tried and found guilty of perjury.
The district court sustained a motion in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the indictment was fatally defective because it charged no scienter, and did not charge that defendant testified well knowing, at the time he so testified, that his testimony was false.
The state prosecutes this appeal.
The motion in arrest in the ease in hand, which the trial judge sustained, was grounded upon the decison in State v. Brown, 110 La. 591, 34 South. 698.
It may be stated at this time that in that case (State…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State v. SpencerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1893
- State v. PowellTexas Supreme Court · 1866
- State v. PerryTexas Supreme Court · 1874
- State v. BrownSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
- State v. EddensSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900