State v. Smith

The defendant was convicted of the crime of perjury for testifying falsely while a witness for the plaintiff in an action brought by one Charles R. Lane, under the assumed name of John L. Bock, against the City of Astoria, to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been received by him on account of a defective street. The case for the prosecution tended to show that the defendant and Lane were friends and acquaintances residing in Contra Costa County, California; that Lane was and had been lame for many years from a fractured kneecap which had not united ; that in the summer of 1900 he…