Sherman v. State

The writ of error brings for review judgment of conviction of the offense of perjury.

The plaintiff in error in brief has posed four questions for our consideration, as follows:

“In a prosecution for perjury based upon alleged false testimony in a Circuit Court in a proceeding supplemental to execution under Chapter 7842, Acts of 1919 (C. G. L., Section 4540 et seq.) is the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court in such supplemental proceeding so established as to support a judgment of conviction when it does not appear that the execution upon which said proceeding purported to be based had been…