BLACKMON v. UNITED STATES

No. 9042.

108 F.2d 572 (1940)

BLACKMON v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thos. Arthur Edwards, of Lake Charles, La., for appellant.

Malcolm E. Lafargue, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Shreveport, La., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The conviction was for perjury.1 The charge against appellant was that while a witness for defendant in a criminal case styled, U. S. v. Neal Cooper, on the docket of the District Court of the U. S., for the Western District of Louisiana, he had on cross-examination, in support of his testimony in chief, sworn falsely to matters material in the criminal trial then and there being held. As charged in the indictment...

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