State v. Kinley

I. The indictment charges that the defendant, in a preliminary examination of certain persons before one C. Leckie, a justice of the peace, did willfully and corruptly swear, testify and state falsely that certain wheat was his property, that he had not turned the said wheat over to Louis Smith to pay a debt, and that he did not recollect of telling Louis Smith to take the wheat away; whereas, in truth and in fact, as the defendant well knew, said wheat was not his property, and he then and there well recollected that he told Louis Smith to take said wheat away, etc.

The defendant procured the…