Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Maynard
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided January 17, 1891PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Case 21 — INDICTMENT APPEAL PROM PIKE CRIMINAL COURT. The facts alleged in the indictment are sufficient to constitute the statutory offense of false swearing. (Gen. Stats., chap. 29, art. 8, sec. 2; Richey v. Commonwealth, 81 Ky., 525; Commonwealth v. Steel, 8 Ky. Lgw Rep., 205; Ferguson v. Commonwealth, 1 S. W. Rep., 435.)
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Holt
The appellee, James Maynard, was indicted for giving false evidence under section 2, article 8, chapter 29, of the General Statutes, which provides:
“If any person in any matter which is or may be judicially pending, or on any subject in which he can legally be sworn, or on which he is required to be sworn, when sworn by a person authorized by law to administer an oath, shall willfully and knowingly *132swear, depose or give in evidence that which is false, he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.”
The indictment charges that the appellee, being on trial…
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