Maynard v. People

Frank Maynard, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the circuit court of Whiteside county for the crime of perjury, and upon trial was convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of two years. The charge in the indictment was, that on the 26th day of August, 1889, at the hearing before the police magistrate of the city of Sterling of a certain bastardy proceeding, he was sworn and examined as a witness, and feloniously, willfully, corruptly and falsely testified, in substance, that he never had sexual intercourse with Margaret Nillen, the complainant in. said proceeding, and…