18-5401 — PERJURY DEFINED


                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 54
                      PERJURY AND SUBORNATION OF PERJURY
    18-5401.  PERJURY DEFINED. Every person who, having taken an oath that he
will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, before any competent
tribunal, legislative committee, officer, or person in any of the cases in
which such an oath may by law be administered, wilfully and contrary to such
oath, states as true any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty
of perjury.