Commonwealth v. Sumrak

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

Mark Sumrak has appealed (from a conviction of perjury under the Penal Code. The indictment alleged that on June 2, 1940, while testifying under oath before a Grand Jury, he swore falsely that he did not know what he was signing when he signed a Communist Party petition. To support the conviction, the Commonwealth proved: (1) That when he subsequently testified at the trial in Commonwealth v. Antico et al., 146 Pa. Superior Ct. 293, 22 A. (2d) 204, he testified under oath that he did know what he was signing when he signed the petition; 2 and (2) that the petition he…