Lester v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Fulton

Reversing.

The appellants, Florence Lester and her husband, Charles Lester, were charged with the crime of conspiring with each other in violation of Section 1241a-1 of the Kentucky Statutes to procure, certain witnesses to commit perjury in an action pending in the Boyd Circuit Court in which Florence Lester was plaintiff and W. E. Vanhorn was defendant. They were found guilty and their punishment fixed at two years in the pentitentiary and this appeal follows.

The daughter of appellants was the wife of W. E. Vanhorn’s son, and sometime prior to the returning…