Smith v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellant, Ella Smith, was indicted by the grand jury of Warren county for the offense of false swearing, committed, as alleged in .the indictment, at a time when after first being duly sworn she was testifying in a court of inquiry being held by the police judge of the city of Bowling Green and said: “that she did not go to the boat-landing or near the boat-landing on Thursday night of the murder of Maggie Roemer and did not on said night or any other occasion go to or near said place with Clarance Runner when, in fact and in truth, she was…