People v. Ashby

The defendant stands indicted of the crimes of first and second degree perjury under a two-count indictment charging, respectively, that on October 2,1958, while appearing as a witness before the Grand Jury of the Extraordinary Term of the Supreme Court, Ulster County, he willfully and falsely testified under oath concerning a number of checks and the proceeds thereof, totaling approximately $19,000, which had been received by him during the years 1951 to 1956, and concerning a second occasion on October 27, 1958, when he gave contradictory statements concerning the same matters.

*414At that time,…