Clanton v. State

Tom Clanton, the appellant, was indicted, tried and convicted at the January 1950 term of the circuit court of Madison County of the crime of perjury. He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of six years. From that conviction and the judgment of the court he has appealed to this court.

The indictment upon which the defendant was convicted charged that, in testifying as a witness in his own behalf in the circuit court of Madison County, at the Jannary term of the court, in the trial of the case of the *704Town of Flora v. Tom Clanton, wherein the defendant was charged with the…