Deseret Evening News | 1910-04-18 | Page 4 | Crime of Perjury

CHIMi UI OJ If Ie fi Samuel mu l dose dOM not ex ox exaggerate aKIf III the Ih crime crittie of oC perjury l Is I fear Ir fearfully fearfully fully common e In this Ihl country countr In a recent address add before the Academy of oC Social and Political Science Philadel Philadelphia phia on the administration of oC the crim criminal crimmel mel inal lit I law mw he h declared that Ihal It has ban h been II said Jl ld and anti 1 I think right rightly ly I that time th cilin of at C perjury In is com coin committed omitted In at al least leant three Ih out of or every five 0 ease cases tried In the Ih courts In which an Inane INU is uC of oC fact fAd Is la Involved It 11 has h become so eo general that the courts court re ye regard gard It almost as All a part of or the tibia abUt accompaniment of oC a II trial This It will be If noticed does not mil In Include clude the tM mistake even are liable hattIe to 10 make mak on ac account account account count of ot detective defective memory or lOr Imper Imperfect tact observations o and Indistinct lin un preaston but only of ot actual cases ca of DC perjury In three out nut of oC every vry live five cases case c tried the Ih lecturer asserted there could be found perjury How would the record stand if It om oh who take inks an oath of or ohio office were put under a microscope for Cor an examina examination tion on for perjury All AJI over ever the coun country county country try ty we find Institutions IR nourishing flourishing In of oC law with the tho knowledge and nd sometimes sometime under the thi auspices of or ormen men In public o places pieces pIa who have sworn to maintain th tM the law and given bonds bond for tor the lite proper performance of DC their duties flow Hew would the tit they come out sn an Investigation Into Inlo oases cane 08 of oC pf How wilt will they appear at the flit Ihal accounting Mr Ir yr believes believe that In court proceedings plO It II should a euId be made manda mandi mandatory tory toP upon the tbs court to require th the jury In addition to 10 Its It general verdict to tu answer wr the Ih question whether any party parlY or witness has haa been guilty of ot wil wll wilful Cut ful false fRI swearing and to name any persons person HO lit iM guilty and In the absence of or a 0 jury the court to 10 be required to 10 answer the name came question Where perjury Is I charged the prosecuting Im cr ter r should hould take taka action He lie aj also ato o sug suggests sects that the penalty for perjury should not hot be no so severe as aa to make malce juries jur averse av to 10 Its II Infliction upon the guilty parties pari This Thin seems me to 10 be a good suggestion The Th crime Is III particularly heinous 1 be because because cause cau It strikes strike at the administration of ot Juett Justice