Scott v. United States

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

An indictment containing two counts was returned in the United States Court for Eastern Oklahoma. The first count charged that appellant and five other named persons conspired together and with others unknown to the grand jury to commit the crime of perjury in the trial of a certain civil case pending that court involving the estate of Jackson Barnett, deceased. Six overt acts were pleaded, each being that one of the named persons gave false testimony in the trial of such case. The second count charged that appellant committed perjury while testifying in the trial of…