State v. Young

Accused was convicted of perjury, alleged to have been committed in a. civil suit, and was sentenced to-one year in the penitentiary.

The said suit involved the title to a certain tract 'of oil land; and the issue was as to whether Mattie Magee had died after Lona Scott. Accused testified that she had; and the sole issue in' the present case was as to the verity of that statement.

After several of the witnesses for accused had testified that Mattie Magee had died after Lona Scott — precisely as they had testified in the civil suit — they were asked, on cross-examination, whether they had not…