Johnson v. State

Warner, Chief Justice.

The defendant was indicted for the offense of “perjury,” and on his trial therefor, wras found guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the various grounds therein set forth, which was overruled by the court, and the defendant excepted.

The main ground of error insisted on here, was the admission of the record of the trial of the case in the militia district court, in which the perjury was alleged to have been committed, over the objection of the defendant. The- objection to the introduction of that record was, that it did not affirmatively show upon its face that the…