State v. Caporale

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wachenfeld, J.

The defendant, a member of the bar of Yew Jersey, was convicted of the crime of subornation of perjury in the Bergen County Court.

The indictment, inter alia, charged that he, on the 13th of June 1951, procured Victor Mcoletta to commit corrupt and willful perjury before the Bergen County grand jury in its investigation concerning violation of gambling laws in said county and unlawfully persuaded Mcoletta, upon his being called as a witness, to depose falsely under oath in a matter material to the issue then being considered by the grand…