People v. Von Tiedeman

The defendant has been convicted of the crime of perjury, and appeals to this court. The present prosecution was occasioned by the following circumstances: Defendant was upon trial charged with the crime of having knowingly offered to he filed for record and registration in the recorder’s *130 office of the city and county of San Francisco a forged deed, purporting to be a deed of conveyance of a certain described block of land by one Harriet P. Christy, grantor, to one Horace George Pratt, grantee. In that trial defendant admitted that he participated in certain transactions pertaining to this deed, stated that he believed it to be genuine, and that an imposition had been practiced upon him in the matter by a certain woman, who represented herself to be Harriet P. Christy, the real owner of the land. He further stated that she had introduced herself to him as Harriet P. Christy; that he had seen her subsequently at various times, and always supposed that she was Harriet P. Christy. Hence, it may be said that the material question there was, Did the defendant believe this woman was in truth Harriet P. Christy? At the trial of that case defendant. took the stand and testified to…