§710-1060 - Perjury.

PART V.  PERJURY AND RELATED OFFENSES

 

     §710-1060  Perjury.  (1)  A person commits the offense of perjury if in any official proceeding the person makes, under an oath required or authorized by law, a false statement which the person does not believe to be true.

     (2)  No person shall be convicted under this section unless the court rules that the false statement is a "materially false statement" as defined by section 710-1000(9).  It is not a defense that the declarant mistakenly believed the false statement to be immaterial.

     (3)  Perjury is a class C felony. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993]

 

Case Notes

 

  Sufficiency of indictment for perjury.  1 H. App. 510, 620 P.2d 1091.