United States v. Mannie Goldberg

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

The principal issue here is the sufficiency of the Government’s evidence under the rule, applicable in prosecutions for perjury, “that one witness, without corroborating circumstances, does not suffice,” 7 Wigmore, Evidence (3d ed. 1940), p. 273; Weiler v. United States, 1945, 323 U.S. 606, 608, 65 S.Ct. 548, 89 L.Ed. 495. Sufficient apart from this, it plainly was.

Goldberg was convicted on Counts I, II and IV of an indictment charging perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1621, Count III having been dismissed by the Court. He was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment…