Polk v. State

Mrs. Mandy McLean Polk was convicted in the Circuit Court of Holmes County on a charge of perjury and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. From this judgment she appeals here.

One Fred Polk was indicted for the murder of one Edward (alias Pete) McLean and was tried therefor at the October 1947 term-of that Court. Mrs. Mandy McLean Polk, appellant, offered herself as a witness for defendant on that trial. On giving her testimony, she was then and there committed by the Court to await the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of perjury because of certain testimony she…