State v. Elder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

O’Connor, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction on two counts of perjury (K. S. A. 21-701). The charges arose from statements made by the defendant, Lyle Elder, while testifying as a witness for the defense during the course of a criminal prosecution reported in State v. Darling, 197 Kan. 471, 419 P. 2d 836.

Elder, a labortaory technologist, was director of Elder Clinical Laboratory in Wichita. At Dr. Darling’s trial on charges of procuring an abortion or miscarriage Elder gave, testimony concerning a pregnancy test performed by him at his laboratory…