WILLIAMS v. STATE


244 S.W.2d 996 (1951)

WILLIAMS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 14, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Huntsville, and H.K. Pemberton, of Helenwood, for appellant.

Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of perjury. The only question raised in the assignments of error is that the defendant was under a judgment of infamy at the time he testified and since he was disqualified under the statute, Code, Section 11072, from testifying he could not be guilty of the crime of perjury.

The evidence is conclusive that the defendant gave perjured testimony in behalf of Gideon Lloyd and Kenneth Austin when they were...

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