Legal Opinion
Johnson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 1920No. 21083PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from circuit court of Alcorn county. Hon. C. P. Long, Judge. Elmer Johnson was convicted of perjury, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Appellant was indicted and convicted of the crime of perjury, and from the judgment of the court sentencing Mm to two years in the state penitentiary this appeal is prosecuted. •
The record shows that, some time prior to the indictment an affidavit was lodged in the mayor’s court of the city of Corinth, charging appellant with being a vagrant under section '5055', subsec. (c), Code of 1906; section 3332, Hemingway’s Code. Immediately upon arrest of the accused under said affidavit, he was tried by the mayor, and during the progress of the trial the defendant testified in Ms own hehalf. At the…
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