McCord v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Perjury.. Evidence. Witness. Charge of court. Presumptions. Sanity. Prisoner’s statement. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Pulton superior court. March term, 1889. The defendant excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial on the following among other grounds : (2) The court charged: “The defendant is to be tried upon what he is alleged to have sworn.
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Criminal law. Perjury.. Evidence. Witness. Charge of court. Presumptions. Sanity. Prisoner’s statement. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Pulton superior court. March term, 1889. The defendant excepted to the overruling of his motion for a new trial on the following among other grounds : (2) The court charged: “The defendant is to be tried upon what he is alleged to have sworn. As to whether he was in the alley-way or not, if there is testimony to the effect that he was not -in the alley— could not have been in the alley, and if you should believe that testimony, that is simply a circumstance…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
McCord was found guilty of perjury, and moved for a new trial, which was refused. The imputed perjury was committed by him (if at all) when testifying as a. witness in behalf of Eddleman on Eddleman’s trial for-the murder of Gresham. The alleged false matter testified to was, substantially, that he (McCord) was in ascertain alley, and saw a large man (Gresham) striking-with a knife at Eddleman, Eddleman backing and. Gresham advancing; and that the former shot the latter-when they were only a few feet apart. The homicide' took place in May, and Eddleman was tried in…
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