Legal Opinion

State v. Campbell

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided July 5, 1918PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Information for perjury, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Warner, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused. No error.

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Information for perjury, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Warner, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused. No error. The case upon the trial of which the defendant is charged with having given perjured testimony, is State v. Triplett, reported in 92 Conn, page 47, 101 Atl. 486. In that case Triplett was informed against in three counts, to wit: (1) a conspiracy to commit an assault upon the person of Dorothy A. Triplett; (2) a conspiracy to commit rape upon her; and (3) an assault upon her with intent to commit rape. The…

1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.

Several of the reasons of appeal relate to the same general subject and involve the same general question. They grow out of the admission, over the defendant’s objection, of portions of the testimony given upon the former trial, which the State offered for the sole purpose of showing the materiality of the testimony given upon that trial by this accused and charged to have been perjured. The objections made to the admission of this testimony were that it was irrelevant and immaterial. That these objections —in so far at least as any of the former testimony was concerned which tended in any…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. People v. FredericksCalifornia Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Commonwealth v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
  3. Trenton Passenger Railway Co. v. CooperSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1897
  4. State v. VandemarkSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
  5. Commonwealth v. ButlandMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Hammer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  2. State v. NardiniSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
  3. State v. TurcioSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1979
  4. United States v. Curtis HewittCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
  5. Vinci v. O'NeillSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925

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