Nash v. State

The appellant, L. W. Nash, was indicted by the grand jury at the March 1962 term of the Circuit Court of Attala County for the crime of perjury. The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of guilty as charged and recommended mercy of the court. A judgment was accordingly entered sentencing the appellant to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of three years; and from that judgment the appellant has prosecuted this appeal.

The indictment charged that the appellant, L. W. Nash, on March 7, 1962, being then and there a witness before the grand jury in a criminal case…