United States v. Warble

Opinion of the Court

The issues in this case relate to the sufficiency of specifications to allege, respectively, perjury and subornation of perjury. The perjury specification alleges that having taken a lawful oath in a summary court-martial to testify truly, the accused did “willfully, corruptly, and contrary to such oath” testify to certain material matters “which he did not then believe to be true.” Each of the two subornation specifications alleges that the accused procured an airman to commit perjury by inducing him to take an oath in a summary court-martial that he would testify truly…