People v. Chiuminatta

The defendant was indicted by the grand jury on three counts of perjury. In the first count she was charged with falsely swearing to a complaint charging her husband with a violation of section 245 of the Penal Code. In the second count, she was charged with falsely swearing at the preliminary hearing of the ease against her husband that her husband on January 27, 1957, had hit her about the face and head while she lay on the floor and had dragged her through the house by her hair. In the third count it was charged that she wilfully committed perjury at the trial of her husband in the…