Yardley v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

This conviction was for perjury,, the punishment assessed being two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “The said E. W. Yardley, then and there appeared as a witness in his own behalf, and was then and there duly and legally sworn and did take his corporeal" oath before the said court and a jury, as a witness to testify in said cause, which oath was then and there required by law and necessary for the ends of public justice; and which said Yardley by W. V. Dean, the clerk of said court, then and there having sufficient and…