Peters v. United States

The opinion was delivered by

Burford, J.:

The defendant, Clay Peters, was prosecuted in the district court of Oklahoma county on an indictment for perjury, alleged to have been committed in the United States land office at Oklahoma City, tried by jury, a verdict of guilty returned, and judgment rendered on tbe verdict assessing his punishment at a fine of one dollar and imprisonment at hard labor for a term of four years in the penitentiary at Stillwater, Minnesota.

The defendant appealed from this judgment and assigned twenty-four alleged errors, for which he asks a reversal of the judgment.…