Keir v. State

SEBRING, J.:

Viola Mae Keir and Anne A. Cramer were convicted of perjury. They are charged with giving false testimony in a divorce suit, to the effect that Viola Mae Keir had been a continuous, bona fide resident of the State of Florida since June 12, 1942. The divorce suit referred to was insisted in the Circuit Court of Hillsborough County on September 18, 1942. Viola Mae Keir was plaintiff in that suit and Alexander Keir, her husband, was defendant.

A certified copy of the court record was a part of the evidence in the perjury trial. The bill of complaint alleged that Viola Mae Keir was a…