State v. Davidson
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information by tlie State Attorney of Hartford County to , the Superior Court in that county, charging the defendant with the crime of perjury. The defendant moved that the case he erased from the docket on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction of the case. The question was reserved for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
At the May session of the General Assembly, in 1870, the following act was passed :
“ Every person who shall commit perjury, or who shall be guilty of subornation of perjury, shall suffer imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or in the Connecticut State Prison for a term not exceeding two years.” The second section of the act repealed the 97th section of the criminal code, which affixed imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than two,'nor more than five years, as the punishment of this crime. Acts of 1870, p. 446.
Under this act has the Superior…
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