Commonwealth v. Barronian
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned on July 31, 1918, charging the defendant with perjury in that, at a hearing upon a libel for divorce brought against him by his wife, where it became and was material to the issue, whether he owned or was interested in the property situated and numbered 258 on Washington Avenue "in Chelsea, he falsely testified in substance and effect that he did not own that property. On March 13, 1919, the defendant pleaded “not guilty.”
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Indictment, found and returned on July 31, 1918, charging the defendant with perjury in that, at a hearing upon a libel for divorce brought against him by his wife, where it became and was material to the issue, whether he owned or was interested in the property situated and numbered 258 on Washington Avenue "in Chelsea, he falsely testified in substance and effect that he did not own that property. On March 13, 1919, the defendant pleaded “not guilty.” The defendant was tried in the Superior Court before Aiken, C. J. During the trial and in cross-examination of a witness for the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The defendant was indicted for perjury committed in the trial of an issue joined on a libel of divorce in which he was Iibellee in that, it being material whether he owned or was interested in certain real estate in Chelsea, he testified wilfully, corruptly, and with knowledge of its falsity, that he did not own such property. At the trial upon the indictment there was evidence tending to show that the defendant testified at the trial of the divorce libel that he did not own the Chelsea property. Thereupon the wife of the defendant, called as a witness by the district attorney, was permitted…
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- Sampson v. SampsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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- Jones v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1887
- State v. TallSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
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