State v. Corson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON EXCEPTIONS. The defendant was charged with committing perjury by an indictment of the following tenor, omitting the simply formal parts: “ The jurors for the State aforesaid, upon their oaths present, tbat David H. Corson, of Athens, in the county of Somerset, and State of Maine, at Norridgewock, in the said county of Somerset, on the twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and seventy, appeared as a witness in a proceeding in which…
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ON EXCEPTIONS. The defendant was charged with committing perjury by an indictment of the following tenor, omitting the simply formal parts: “ The jurors for the State aforesaid, upon their oaths present, tbat David H. Corson, of Athens, in the county of Somerset, and State of Maine, at Norridgewock, in the said county of Somerset, on the twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and seventy, appeared as a witness in a proceeding in which Timothy Eaton and David H. Corson were parties, then and there being heard before a tribunal of competent jurisdiction, and…
1Opinion of the CourtKent, J.
The respondent demurs to the indictment against him for perjury. It is very clear that the indictment is bad in many particulars, if considered under the old rules of the common law, or of our former practice and decisions. Indeed, the criminal pleader found great difficulty in so framing an indictment for perjury, that it could stand the searching examination and technical objections thereupon raised by astute counsel. And the records in all the States show that it had become extremely difficult to pursue a perjurer to final judgment and sentence, however clear his guilt, or however…
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