State v. Clough

1 The defendant was convicted of falsely swearing, in an affidavit for a bond for costs, that A. West & Son were acting as a corporation, doing’ business at Des Moines, Iowa. The defendant contends that there is not sufficient corroborative evidence that they were not so acting to sustain the verdict. We think otherwise. The testimony of A. West on this point was sustained hy that of another witness, who had made inquiries as to the matter, and by facts and circumstances before the. jury which tended to show that they were not a corporation. The law is well settled that the required…