Cardwell v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Thomas—

Affirming.

The appellant, Alex Cardwell, was indicted in the Butler circuit court and accused of committing the offense of false swearing in his testimony at the trial of a prosecution pending in that court, of Commonwealth v. Sam Garner, in which the latter was charged with a second commission of a violation of our Prohibition Statute (Laws 1922, e. 33), which made it punishable as a felony. At appellant’s trial the jury found him guilty of the false swearing with which he was accused in the indictment, and punished him by confinement in the peniten…