Commonwealth v. Glickstein

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Appellants and Lena Berman were tried together and were convicted of perjury, on separate indictments. Lena Berman had made information against one Nate Stupp, charging him with having assaulted her. The perjury indictments accused each of the defendants of giving false testimony under oath at the preliminary hearing before a magistrate on the assault and battery charge. In this appeal, appellants contend that they were unduly restricted, to their prejudice, in the cross-examination of Commonwealth witnesses; they also assign as error excerpts from the charge of the court.

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