State v. Rogers

The respondent was indicted for perjury-alleged to have been committed by her in testimony given before the Grand Jury in Kennebec County.

The case is before this court on exceptions by the respondent and by appeal from the refusal of the presiding justice to grant a new trial.

The pertinent allegations of the indictment are, that the respondent

“appeared as a witness in a proceeding before the Grand Jury in and for the County of Kennebec, then and there engaged in hearing testimony relative to the commission of crime in said County of Kennebec .... the said Helena Rogers then and there…