State v. Lupton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Cumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions on an indictment charging him with perjury. On this conviction he was sentenced for a term of imprisonment at hard labor, not less than one year and not more than two years.

The perjury alleged was assigned upon certain testimony' given by the defendant below who was a witness subpoenaed by the state in a proceeding, before the Cumberland county grand jury,' instituted against one Luther Garton, accused of selling liquor for beverage purposes, and before…