Johnsen v. United States

DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was adjudged guilty on an indictment charging him, in two counts, with, the commission of perjury while he was giving testimony in the trial of a certain proceeding in the United States District Court at San Francisco having to do with the smuggling of intoxicating liquor into the United States.

For some time he had been, and when he gave the testimony he was, a chief boatswain in the United States Coast Guard. Upon his arraignment he filed a plea of former conviction and former jeopardy in which he exhibited the proceedings taken in and-by the United States.…