District Court, S.D. California April 28, 1902, No. 35 (United States v. Maid)

WEEEBORN, District Judge.

Indictment for perjury, under section 5392, Rev. St. U. S., which provides that “every person, who, having taken an oath, before a competent * * * officer, * * * in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that * * * any material * '* * declaration * * * by him subscribed is true, wilfully, and contrary to such oath * * *