Legal Opinion
Blackmon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 3, 1940No. 9042PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
The conviction was for perjury. The charge against appellant was that while a witness for defendant in a criminal case styled, U. S. v. Neal Cooper, on the docket of the District Court of the U. S., for the Western District of Louisiana, he had on cross-examination, in support of his testimony in chief, sworn falsely to matters material in the criminal trial then and there being held. As charged in the indictment, this was the occasion of the false testimony. In Cooper’s trial for the crime of possessing and operating an illicit whiskey distillery and possessing mash,…
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- Ex Parte MetcalfCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
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