Smith v. State

CATES, Judge.

Conviction of perjury during a non-felony trial, i. e., as a sworn witness in a hearing as to revoking appellant’s probation. Sentence: five years. Code 1940, T. 14, § 377.

The instant indictment reads as follows:

“The Grand Jury of said County Charge that, before the finding of this Indictment Ronald E. Smith, alias Ronald Edward Smith, whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown, on his examinátion as a witness, duly sworn to testify by Roy O. Hill, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Houston County, Alabama, who had authority to administer such oath, on the trial or hearing for…