United States v. Evans

The indictment, after the usual formal allegations, which seem to be quite sufficient, charges in substance that the defendant procured one Burnett to commit the crime of perjury by-swearing to certain allegations contained in an affidavit made and subscribed by him on an application for an entry of certain timber lands. It avers that Burnett knew that these allegations were false, and it negatives them by averring what the facts were. It also avers that the defendant, when he procured Burnett to swear to these allegations, also knew that, they were false. It does not aver that he knew that…