5 Sadler 79
Decided February 14, 1887
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1887-02-14
January Term, 1886, No. 364, E. D., before Mercur, Ch. J., Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey, Sterrett, and Green, JJ. Error to tbe Quarter Sessions of Eayette County to review a judgment against tbe defendant on an indictment for perjury. George W. Cover was prosecuted for perjury May 2, 1885.
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Affirmed · Decided 1887-02-14
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¶1The crime of perjury is sufficiently charged in the indictment. The evidence of which complaint is made was not to prove distinct offenses committed on a former trial for another crime or offense, but of certain acts committed by the defendant below, intended to thwart and prevent a conviction of the particular crime charged in this indictment. It was dearly admissible.
¶2Judgment affirmed.