Rump v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia. This was an indictment for perjury, wherein Philip Rump, the defendant, was charged with having falsely sworn, before the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, on the application of Daniel McShane to become a citizen of the United States) that, to his knowledge, the said Daniel McShane had resided in the United States five years immediately preceding his application to be a citizen.
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Error to the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia. This was an indictment for perjury, wherein Philip Rump, the defendant, was charged with having falsely sworn, before the District Court for the city and county of Philadelphia, on the application of Daniel McShane to become a citizen of the United States) that, to his knowledge, the said Daniel McShane had resided in the United States five years immediately preceding his application to be a citizen. The defendant having been convicted and sentenced, obtained this writ of error, and assigned for error: 1. That no offence was charged in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
— False swearing in a naturalization proceeding is punishable by our state law. We need not notice the theoretic and practical conflict that occasionally appears between federal and state functions. To all orderly minds, the action of the state courts in the naturalization of foreigners, stands justified by the fact that it has had an almost undisputed growth since the organization of the Union.
And our practice on this subject is fully justified by positive law. The stat. 13 Geo. 2, c. 7, (1740,) followed by our provincial Act of 3d…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Spratt v. SprattSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
3Cited by7 opinions
- Clarke's CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1930
- Macoluso's NaturalizationSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Schuylkill County v. ReeseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
- United States v. SeverinoU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1903
- Ferenczi's Petition, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County1940
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