Barkley v. Commonwealth

COMBS, Justice.

This appeal is from a sentence of one year in. the penitentiary on a conviction of false swearing under KRS 432.170. The statute reads:

“If any person, in any matter which is or may be judicially pending or which is being investigated by a grand jury, or on any subject in which he can legally be sworn or on which he is required to be sworn, when sworn by a person authorized by law to administer an oath, shall willfully and knowingly swear, depose or give in evidence that which is false, he shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one or more than five years.”

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