perjured

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Conviction Based on Perjured Testimony When a conviction is obtained by the presentation of testimony known to the prosecuting authorities to have been perjured, the constitutional requirement of due process is not satisfied.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel

Perjured traitor!" screamed Mrs. Ulrica, "you hide yourself like Adam after his fall.

From The Home in the Valley by Perce, Elbert

This was followed by the cruets, which he put down with the exclamation, "Perjured fiend!"

From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Harte, Bret

Celia; or, the Perjured Lovers; a Tragedy, 1732.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

After Nos. vii, viii, ix, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The Nun; or, the Perjured Beauty, The Adventure of the Black Lady follows a note: ‘These last three never before published.’

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague