People v. Tredway
New York Supreme Court
Error to the Oiieida general sessions. The plaintiff in error was indicted for perjury alleged to have been committed in swearing to his ability to become surety for one Willard Loomis upon proceedihgs against him under the “ act to abolish imprisonment for debt,” &c. passed April 26, 1831, before' B. P. Johnson, Esq':-a supreme court commissioner.
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Error to the Oiieida general sessions. The plaintiff in error was indicted for perjury alleged to have been committed in swearing to his ability to become surety for one Willard Loomis upon proceedihgs against him under the “ act to abolish imprisonment for debt,” &c. passed April 26, 1831, before' B. P. Johnson, Esq':-a supreme court commissioner. The" first count of the’ indictment alleged that on the 18th of December, 1843, Horace Putnam appeared before the said Johnson', a supreme court commissioner residing at Rome,’an officer duly authorized to perform the duties of a judge of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Gridley, J.
This motion involves only the sufficiency of the indictment, and has no concern with any errors committed on the trial; the questions arising upon the bill of exceptions having been disposed of by the late supreme court upon a motion for a new trial, made before that tribunal. The indictment charges the prisoner with the crime of perjury, committed upon an examination under oath as to his sufficiency as a surety for one Willard Loomis, in a bond executed under the 4th subdivision of the 10th section of the act “ to abolish imprisonment for debt,” after a conviction of…
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