Stonebraker v. People

Plaiutifp in error was convicted of perjury. The information charges that in a civil proceeding in Las Animas district court wherein John Aiello was plaintiff and G-eneral Agency Company, Inc., was defendant, he wilfully, knowingly, corruptly and falsely testified that one Nelson B. Cook, Special Deputy State Bank Commissioner in charge of International State Bank of Trinidad, had not paid certain insurance premiums. Motions for a directed verdict of not guilty were interposed by the defendant at the close of the people’s testimony and at the close of all the testimony and denied, and after…