Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “”(Q) Now Curtis Ward, you know that you are under Oath? “(A) Yes Sir. “(Q) Do you know what perjury is? “(A) What is it? “(Q) If you tell something that is not true in answer to a question that I am fixing to ask you, it’s perjury. Do you know that? “(A) No, I didn’t. “(Q) Do you know that for telling something that is not true after you are under oath that you can go to the Penitentiary for twenty years ? “(A) I didn’t know that. “Mr. Herring: Judge that is a legal point to be- “Mr. Baxley: Your Honor, this is cross examination. “Mr. Herring: Well the District Attorney is- “The Court: It is cross examination and I will allow him to go into it. “Mr. Herring: Well, I move that the Court inform the Witness of the perjury business. “Mr. Baxley: We would like the Court to inform him as to perjury, yes, sir. “The Court: Give me the statute. Now, under the law of Alabama, the Statute says: That any person who willfully and corruptly swears or affirm in regard to any material matter or thing on the trial of any person under an indictment for a felony shall on conviction be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for not less than three nor more than twenty years: Do you understand that? “(A) I do. “The Court: All right if you understand that, go ahead. “(Q) Now, Joe Curtis, actually what happened, when you all came back, this defendant and Willie Mae Higgins came over to that house and told you all that they had robbed that old man, didn’t they? “(A) Not as I know of. “(Q) You did not hear h”

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