People v. Reitz

The defendant was tried upon an information charging perjury. The appeal is taken from the judgment following the verdict of conviction and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The information charged that, in an action instituted by this defendant for the annulment of his marriage to May-belle Nelson Reitz and pending in the superior court in the city and county of San Francisco, this defendant falsely testified under oath that he had never lived with his wife; that she misrepresented facts to him of which he had no knowledge at the time the marriage was contracted;…