State v. Ledford

(dissenting) — The majority opinion rests upon what I conceive to be a faulty emphasis placed upon the wording of the statute defining perjury in the first degree and upon a failure to recognize the alternative inhibitions contained in the same section.

The defendaht was charged, in the amended information, with the crime of first degree perjury. It stands admitted, by the pleadings, as the majority opinion freely concedes, that the accused voluntarily appeared before a notary public to testify in an action pending before the superior court; that he was regularly sworn according to law; that…