State v. Meader
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for perjury. Trial by jury ; plea, not guilty; verdict guilty; at tbe June Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. It was claimed that the respondent committed perjury at a justice trial, in which one Chase .and wife were plaintiffs, and he defendant.
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Indictment for perjury. Trial by jury ; plea, not guilty; verdict guilty; at tbe June Term, 1881, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. It was claimed that the respondent committed perjury at a justice trial, in which one Chase .and wife were plaintiffs, and he defendant. The evidence on the part of the State tended to show that Meader had an old traverse sled, and that before this trial he painted it so as to imitate the sled Chase had lost; that soon after it was lost on one Sunday morning, the forward part of a traverse sled was suspended on the sign-post of the old hotel at Danville;'…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
Mrs. Chase, in the action tried before Justice Cook, sought to recover damages for the conversion of a sled by the respondent to his own use. The only sled that she claimed as her property, was the one suspended from the sign-post opposite the old hotel where the respondent lived, and which sled, the respondent conceded he took down from said sign-post. Both parties claimed title to this sled ; and the indictment charges that among other things the respondent testified, in the action aforesaid, falsely upon this question of his title to the…
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