Martin v State

Martin v State
1912 OK CR 349
124 P. 1132
7 Okl.Cr. 741
Case Number: No. A-1064
Decided: 06/15/1912
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from Craig County Court; S.F. Parks, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the county court of Craig county for a violation of the prohibitory liquor law, and his punishment was assessed at a fine of four hundred dollars and one hundred and eighty days' confinement in the county jail. Appealed. Affirmed.

James S. Davenport, for appellant.

FURMAN, P. J. Upon the trial of these cases the court among other things instructed the jury as follows:

"If the jury believe from the evidence that any witness has willfully testified falsely to any material fact or statement of facts in this case, you are at liberty to disregard the whole of such witnesses' testimony except in so far as the same may be corroborated by other creditable witnesses or creditable evidence."