State v. Spencer

By the Court, Prim, O. J.:

This was a criminal action for perjury, brought by the state of Oregon against William Spencer in the circuit court of Wasco county. Said Spencer was charged in the indictment with having committed the crime of perjury by swearing willfully false as a witness at the trial of a civil action for damages, pending in said court between one Mc-Corkle and himself. Said Spencer having been tried and found guilty of said crime as charged in said indictment, and a motion for a new trial and arrest "of judgment having been interposed and overruled by the court, an appeal has…