Legal Opinion

People v. Glass

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided April 16, 1920PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal by the defendant, Harry Glass, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 20th day of January, 1919, convicting him of the crime of perjury.

1Opinion of the Court

Kelly, J.:

The only evidence in the record before us that the defendant committed the perjury charged in the indictment is found in the testimony of the stenographer of the County Court of Queens county that upon a trial in that court in the year 1918, this defendant, called as a witness for the prosecution, upon direct examination identified one Mauphet, then on trial as a man engaged in the commission of a crime, while upon cross-examination he confessed that the identification was false and that the man on trial was not one of the persons who committed the offense. He offered various…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. GilletteAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
  2. People v. BurdenNew York Supreme Court · 1850

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. People v. HartAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1982
  2. People v. SrebnikNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1931
  3. State v. KowalczykNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1949
  4. Stafford v. BruceNew York Supreme Court · 1936
  5. People v. Al HatemNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1949

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