Danaher v. United States

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Danaher was convicted on seven counts of an indictment each of which purported to charge him with subornation of perjury. Sections 231 and 232 of title 18 USCA. By making the terms cumulative he was then sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for 23 years.

Section 231 reads:

“Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any ease in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to he administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by…