People v. Ortiz Colón

delivered the opinion of the Court..

It is provided by § 117 of the Penal Code (1937 ed.), 33 L.P.R.A. § 421 that “Every person who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any of the cases in which such an oath may by law be administered, wilfully and contrary to such oath, states as true any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury.” One of the rules to determine the sufficiency of pleadings 1 in an information for the above-mentioned crime is contained in § 89 of the Code of…