People v. Ashby

Chief Judge Desmond.

Defendant, because of testimony he gave before a Grand Jury investigating alleged corruption of public officers and employees in Ulster County, was convicted of two crimes of perjury, second degree. One such alleged crime consisted of the giving by defendant on October 2, 1958 of testimony which he afterwards (October 27, 1958) recanted and denied before the same Grand Jury. The first indictment count on which defendant was convicted charged that defendant’s October 2, 1958 Grand Jury testimony was false and, since defendant himself afterwards so labeled it and attempted…