State v. Smith

The defendant assigns error in the rulings of the court below in several particulars to which exceptions were noted, but the question chiefly debated here was whether the State’s evidence was sufficient to carry the case to the jury on the charge of wilful and corrupt perjury. It was contended that the proof offered by the State, as shown by the record in this case, only tended to show the falsity of statements made by the defendant on the previous hearing as to matters which were not material to the issue then being tried, and hence was insufficient to support a conviction for perjury.

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