Beck v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Jas. E. Cobb. The defendant, Willis Beck, was tried and convicted under a plea of not guilty at the Spring Term of said court, 1886, of the offense of carrying a concealed pistol.
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Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. Jas. E. Cobb. The defendant, Willis Beck, was tried and convicted under a plea of not guilty at the Spring Term of said court, 1886, of the offense of carrying a concealed pistol. As shown by the bill of exceptions, a witness introduced by the State testified, in substance, that on a certain day, within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, he saw the defendant at Briarfield, in said county, with a pistol, which he carried in his hip-pocket, exposed to public view; that on meeting the defendant later in the day the weapon was no…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
There is a principle of law, that if a fraud on the court be attempted, in the getting up of false testimony, or by any other artifice tending, or designed to deceive or mislead, or to make the false appear to be the true, and this is knowingly assisted, or procured to be done by the suitor, this is a circumstance which the jury may rightly consider, to the disadvantage of the party making, or assisting in such attempt. An honest cause, the law considers, needs not the aid of such reprehensible methods. But, to justify the application of this principle, there must be some proof of it, or…
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