Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Tinsley

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted in the 'Christian circuit court charged with false swearing. On his trial he was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.

On a Saturday night in April, 1928, one Fred Calhoun, a young white man, and a negro named Alvin Lisenby, engaged in a fight in the. meat shop of the Jitney-Jingle Grocery Company No. 1 in Hopkinsville, of which Calhoun was manager. Lisenby was arrested on a charge of malicious cutting and wounding Calhoun, and, on his examining trial in the Hopkinsville police court, appellant was…