Mississippi Supreme Court January 21, 1884 (Turnage v. State)

Chalmers, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

We cannot think it likely that the jury could have been misled by the inapt phraseology of the fifth instruction for the State, in stating that it was a legal presumption rather than one of fact that a witness who knowingly testified falsely as to one material fact was thereby rendered unworthy of credit as to all his state*537ments; since, by the