Kuskulis v. United States

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, John A. Kuskulis, was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of perjury and has appealed.

The perjury charge was predicated upon testimony given by the defendant in his defense at a prior trial on the charge of subornation of perjury. The indictment, in the instant ease, charged that, at such prior trial, the defendant testified he was not at the county court house of Huerfano County, in the city of Walsenburg, Colorado, on June 18,1927, when in truth and in fact he was in such court house on such date; that such testimony was false; that the…