Watkins v. United States
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Logan County. The defendant, James Watkins, was convicted on February 26, 1896, of the crime of perjury, and sentenced to the United States penitentiary, at Leavenworth, Kansas, for the period of two years, and to pay a fine of one dollar, from which judgment of conviction and sentence he appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tarsney, J.:
On the trial of this cause, the defendant offered in evidence the depositions of one John A. Watkins, and one Ardill R. Johnson, taken before the register of the United States land office on the 10th day of February, 1890, in contest proceedings there pending, between said John A. Watkins and one Charles E. Scho-field. Tlie testimony of the defendant herein, upon which the indictment for perjury was founded, and which was alleged to be false, was given in subsequent proceedings in said land contest, wherein the heirs of said John A. Watkins…
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