Commonwealth v. Lafaso

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The rule that the matter sworn to must be material to the issue or question in controversy in order that perjury may be assigned upon it is elementary.”
• false statement “need not be material to the main issue or question; but it is sufficient if it is material to a collateral inquiry in the course of the proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).