Roddenberry v. State

Only the 3d headnote needs elaboration. Under the law of this State, to convict of perjury requires two witnesses or one witness and corroborating circumstances. Penal Code (1910), § 1017. Basing his charge on the foregoing statute and the principles announced in the ease of Bell v. State, 5 Ga. App. 701, 703, 704 (63 S. E. 860), which case is supported by decisions from many States and numerous text writers, the presiding judge correctly charged the jury that “The corroborating evidence necessary to support the testimony of a witness must not be evidence that emanates from the mouth of the…