Supreme Court of Virginia January 15, 1882 (Crump v. Commonwealth)

Anderson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The court is of opinion that to convict the prisoner, the alleged false statement must have been material in the judicial proceeding.

The proceeding was a summons of garnishment to subject to the lien of & fieri facias a debt owing to the prisoner by the garnishee. The prisoner was a married man, householder and head of a family.