Commonwealth v. Brown Rubin

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The appellants, Brown and Rubin, were separately tried and found guilty on indictments charging each of them with wilful and corrupt perjury, in unlawfully, wilfully and corruptly making a false oath before an Alderman of the City of Reading to a nomination paper of the Communist Party.

Rubin was also tried, at the same time with his trial for perjury, and found guilty on an indictment (No. 204 December Sessions, 1940) charging that he had made a false statement in an affidavit required by the Election Code of June 3, 1937, P. L. 1333, which was appended to and…