Farmer v. E. Knox Bd. of Edn.

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• holding that there is no recantation if the individual recanted “only after he knew his false testimony would not deceive”
• “To recant a prior statement or previous assertion is to renounce and withdraw it.”
• “If the witness withdraws the false testimony of his own volition and without delay, the false statement and its withdrawal may be found to constitute one inseparable incident out of which an intention to deceive cannot rightly be drawn”
• “If the witness withdraws the false testimony of his own volition and without delay, the false statement and its withdrawal may be found to constitute one inseparable incident out of which an intention to deceive cannot rightly be drawn”

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