State v. Brandon

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice FishburnE.

The appellant, I. L. Brandon, was tried and convicted in the Court of General Sessions of York County on December 16, 1936, upon an indictment charging him with false swearing under oath. The indictment for false swearing was based upon testimony given by him in a case entitled State v. Ed Brandon, which was tried in the same Court on July 10, 1933.

The defendant appealed to this Court from the judgment beluow, and pending his appeal applied to the Court for leave to make a motion in the lower Court for a new trial, on the ground…