Greenwell v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appellant, Thomas Vincent Greenwell, was convicted of the crime of false swearing. The indictment charged him with giving false testimony in a previous criminal proceeding against him, in which he was charged with a species of forgery ,1

The indictment charges that the defendant “did voluntarily testify in his own behalf and in doing so, did falsely, knowingly and wilfully testify that in the year 1956 he raised a crop of soybeans [on certain land] when in truth and in fact the said Greenwell had not raised a crop of soybeans upon said land * * * ” In a number of…