State v. Pike
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Indictment for perjury, alleged to have been committed March 19, 1842, at Claremont, in this county, before Hubbard Newton, a commissioner in bankruptcy, duly appointed and commissioned by the District Court of the United States for the district of New-Hampshire, under “ an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.”
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Indictment for perjury, alleged to have been committed March 19, 1842, at Claremont, in this county, before Hubbard Newton, a commissioner in bankruptcy, duly appointed and commissioned by the District Court of the United States for the district of New-Hampshire, under “ an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.” The indictment alleged that- the defendant made a petition, addressed and directed to the Judge of the District Court, representing that he was owing debts, &c. with schedules, &c. and praying that he might be declared a bankrupt; that he was…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The act of Congress of August 19, A. D. *841841, for establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy, provides that the bankrupt shall at all times be subject to examination, orally or upon written interrogatories, before the District Court, or any commission appointed by the court therefor, on oath, &c. “ and if in any such examination he shall wilfully and corruptly answer, or swear, or affirm, falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be punishable therefor, in like manner as the crime of perjury is now punishable by the laws of the United States.” §4.
By a statute of the United…
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