Davis v. State

The appellant was convicted of perjury. Error is assigned upon the overruling of a motion to quash the affidavit and upon the overruling of a motion for a new trial.

It appears that the appellant and Carrie Davis and another were charged in the City Court of Shelbyville with the offenses of vagrancy, desecration of the flag of the United States, rout, and intimidation of police officers. On the trial, Carrie Davis claimed the right to be discharged upon the ground that she was the wife of the codefendant, Erman Davis, and that it must be presumed that she was acting under coercion of her…