United States v. Harold Parker

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

Parker, defendant, was convicted by a jury on the first and second counts of an indictment grounded in 18 U.S.C. § 1621 which provides in relevant part that: “Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose * * * or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition * * * is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury,…