People v. Fish

— Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered February 23, 1979, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of perjury in the first degree. There were allegations in related civil actions that defendant, then the Chief of Police of the Town of Bethlehem, and others had acted wrongfully and illegally to divert towing business from the plaintiffs Olin Bleau and Bleau’s Towing Service, Inc. During the course of an examination before trial in July of 1977, defendant, having been placed under oath by a certified shorthand reporter who was a notary public, was asked…