United States v. Remington

SWAN, Chief Judge.

After a protracted jury trial the appellant was found guilty of the crime of perjury in testifying before a grand jury that he had never been a member of the Communist Party. 1 The evidence submitted to the jury related to three periods, in each of which the prosecution specified in a bill of particulars that the appellant was a member of the Party. The first period covered the years 1936-7, when he was employed as a TVA messenger at Knoxville, Tennessee; the second covered the years 1937-40, during which he was a student at Dartmouth and Columbia;, and the third covered the…