State v. Thomas
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for Perjury, At the trial the state proved by certain witnesses that the defendant had made the specific statements, as charged in the indictment, in the Attorney General’s office a short time before the trial of one Edward Primrose upon the charge of murder of the first degree, to the effect that Primrose pulled Frisby’s (the man who was killed) head down and shot him in the back of the head.
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Indictment for Perjury, At the trial the state proved by certain witnesses that the defendant had made the specific statements, as charged in the indictment, in the Attorney General’s office a short time before the trial of one Edward Primrose upon the charge of murder of the first degree, to the effect that Primrose pulled Frisby’s (the man who was killed) head down and shot him in the back of the head. The Attorney General then called the Official Court Stenographer to the stand and proved by him that at the trial of Primrose subsequently the defendant, Clara Thomas, denied making the said…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyce, J.
We decline to instruct the jury as requested.
Boyce, J.
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury: — Clara Thomas, the accused, is charged in this indictment with perjury. The indictment contains three counts.
The Attorney General contends, as substantially averred in the indictment, that, on the fifth day of October, A. D. 1910, one Edward Primrose Was placed on trial in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in this county, for the murder of August Frisby, and that the accused did then and there, upon her oath, falsely, willfully and corruptly depose and say, among other things, in substance, that she,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. BaileyNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1907
3Cited by4 opinions
- United States v. OttoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1931
- State v. LongDelaware Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1919
- Mumford v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1958
- United States v. OttoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1931