Commonwealth v. Williams
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 117, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 524, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Helen Williams, alias Helen V. Abrams. Indictment for perjury.
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Appeal, No. 117, Oct. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Phila. Co., June T., 1907, No. 524, on verdict of guilty in case of Commonwealth v. Helen Williams, alias Helen V. Abrams. Indictment for perjury. Before Carr, J. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was indicted for perjury in swearing before Magistrate Eisenbrown in the case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Abrams charged with desertion and nonsupport, that she was married to him on September 4, 1906, by the Rev. George Lewis Wolfe at Wilmington, Delaware, and also for perjury in then and there swearing that a certain man…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The defendant was indicted for perjury in swearing before a magistrate of Philadelphia, in the case of Commonwealth v. Samuel Abrams, charged by her with desertion and nonsupport, first, that she was married to Abrams on September 4, 1906, by the Rev. George Lewis Wolfe at Wilmington, Delaware, second, that a certain man then and there produced was not Ellwood Wilson, her first husband.
As the record of that-proceeding was admissible as inducement, though not to prove the falsity of the testimony assigned as perjury, it is not apparent that there was reversible error in…
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