Cronk v. People

This writ of error brings before us for review the record of the conviction of the plaintiff in error, in the Criminal Court of Cook county, of the crime of perjury. The perjury is alleged, to have been committed on the trial of an action of replevin for a lot of law books, wherein one Edward E. Sawyer was plaintiff, and A. S. Cronk, the present plaintiff in error, was defendant, before one Foote, a justice of the peace for Cook county.

Upon the trial before the justice of the peace, Sawyer produced what purported to be a bill of, sale of .the law books of Cronk to himself, and testified that…