State v. . Blanton

The appealing defendant and his co-defendants, Ward M. Blanton and Vivian Baird, were tried on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to procure persons "to commit wilful and corrupt perjury before the courts of the State of North Carolina" and that "they did combine, conspire and confederate, and plan together amongst themselves each with the other and with each other to suborn of perjury and for corrupt bargaining and contracting with others to commit wilful and corrupt perjury and procure false testimony to be given wilfully and corruptly knowing the same to be false and they knew and…