Saucier v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of TIarrisou county. Hon. William H. Hardy, Judge. Saucier, appellant, was indicted for perjury, convicted, sentenced to the penitentiary for three years, and appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of TIarrisou county. Hon. William H. Hardy, Judge. Saucier, appellant, was indicted for perjury, convicted, sentenced to the penitentiary for three years, and appealed to the supreme court. The indictment charged that Saucier, the appellant, “on the 26th day of August, 1908, at a term of the justice of the peace court, and iu said court,” swore falsely while testifying as a witness in the trial of one Bryant Lemon charged with the robbery of one Belaise. On the trial of Saucier it developed that the court of the justice of the peace was held on August 27, 1908, instead…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It was error in the court below to permit the state to show, by the testimony of-George Malone, Emma Speers, and Lillian Gardner, the different conversations had, in the absence o-f the appellant, between Bryant Lemon and these parties. This testimony had nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of this appellant on the charge perferred against him, and it could only have tended to- inflame the jury against him, by clouding the question of his guilt or innocence on this specific charge with incompetent testimony showing the disreputable…
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