Commonwealth v. Coleman

The defendant appeals from convictions on two indictments charging that he gave perjured testimony: the first instance on October 5, 1981, at a pretrial hearing in connection with a murder charge then pending against him, the allegedly false testimony being his denial of a statement by which he had confessed his guilt to an investigating detective sergeant named McConkey; the second on March 2, 1982, at the trial of one Evans for the same murder, the allegedly false testimony being his (Coleman’s) denial that Evans was with him when he committed the murder. The first appeal is based in part…