Collins v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ejrom the Circuit Court of Bullock. Tried before the Hon. H. I). Clayton. The defendant in this case was indicted for perjury, alleged to have been committed during his examination as a witness on the trial of one Albert Bell, before a justice of the peace, under a charge of bastardy preferred against him on the coni' plaint of Mattie Bean ; “the matter so sworn to being material, and the testimony of said Wiley Collins being willfully and corruptly false.”
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Ejrom the Circuit Court of Bullock. Tried before the Hon. H. I). Clayton. The defendant in this case was indicted for perjury, alleged to have been committed during his examination as a witness on the trial of one Albert Bell, before a justice of the peace, under a charge of bastardy preferred against him on the coni' plaint of Mattie Bean ; “the matter so sworn to being material, and the testimony of said Wiley Collins being willfully and corruptly false.” On the trial, when the affidavit (or complaint) and the warrant of arrest, in the bastardy proceeding, were offered in evidence on the…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
On complaint being made by affidavit of Mattie Bean, that the offense of bastardy was committed, and that Albert Bell was guilty thereof, a warrant, following the complaint in the description of the offense, was issued, under which he was arrested. On the investigation before the justice of the peace, the defendant was sworn and testified as a witness. The indictment charges him with committing perjury, while so testifying. While a proceeding in- a case of bastardy partakes of the nature of both a criminal prosecution and a civil suit, and is regarded as quasi-criminal, bastardy is not a…
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