Freeman v. State

Citations

• 19 Fla. 552

Syllabus

<p>1. In the trial on an indictment for perjury to secure a conviction it is. not sufficient to prove that the defendant, at different times, testified to two opposite things irreconcilable with each other. There-must be testimony outside of his own contradictory statements as to which of such statements is false.</p> <p>2. Courts cannot take cognizance of the ordinances of an incorporated town. They are subjects of proof. In an indictment for perjury, assigned upon testimony given in a Mayor’s Court on the trial for a violation of a municipal ordinance, the indictment should so charge it, and the evidence should prove it.</p>