Kentucky Revised Statutes
Ky. Rev. Stat. § 432.170 (2026)
Repealed, effective January 1, 1975
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Catchline at repeal: False swearing. History: Repealed 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 336, effective January 1, 1975. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1174.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15
cases, 1943–1972 · leading case: Murray v. Commonwealth, 473 S.W.2d 150 (Ky. Ct. App. 1971).
Murray v. Commonwealth, 473 S.W.2d 150 (Ky. Ct. App. 1971). “A jury found George Murray guilty of false swearing and fixed his penalty at imprisonment for one year, the minimum punishment prescribed by KRS 432.170. He attacks the judgment of conviction, assigning as bases for reversal that (1) the indictment was fatally defective; (2) the…”
Daniels v. Commonwealth, 189 S.W.2d 849 (Ky. Ct. App. 1945). “The crime of false swearing is covered by KRS 432.170. This section reads as follows: “If any person, in any matter which is or may be judicially pending or which is being investigated by a grand jury, or on any subject in which he can legally be sworn or on which he is required…”
Barkley v. Commonwealth, 264 S.W.2d 297 (Ky. Ct. App. 1953). “the penitentiary on a conviction of false swearing under KRS 432.170. The statute reads: “If any person, in any matter which is or may be judicially pending or which is being investigated by a grand jury, or on any subject in which he can legally be sworn or on which he is…”
Gibson v. Commonwealth, 328 S.W.2d 162 (Ky. Ct. App. 1959). “However, the court in its instructions authorized imposition of a punishment of one to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, which is the punishment prescribed by KRS 432.170 for the statutory offense of “false swearing,” and the jury returned a verdict imposing a…”
Whitaker v. Commonwealth, 367 S.W.2d 831 (Ky. Ct. App. 1963). “Appellant, Glen Whitaker, was convicted of the offense of false swearing (KRS 432.170) and sentenced to one year’s confinement in the penitentiary.”
Jackson v. Commonwealth, 249 S.W.2d 20 (Ky. Ct. App. 1952). “KRS 432.170 denounces the offense of false swearing.”
Lee v. Commonwealth, 310 S.W.2d 549 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958). “The appellant, Carl Lee, was convicted of false swearing, KRS 432.170, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.”
Booth v. Commonwealth, 419 S.W.2d 739 (Ky. Ct. App. 1967). “Raymond Booth was convicted of false swearing under KRS 432.170 and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.”
Greenwell v. Commonwealth, 316 S.W.2d 353 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958). “The argument is that the statute, KRS 432.170, makes it a crime if any person under the prescribed conditions “shall willfully and knowingly swear, depose or give in, evidence that which is false” and does not specifically require that at the time the witness knew the statements…”
Jewell v. Commonwealth, 178 S.W.2d 415 (Ky. Ct. App. 1944). “The appellants, Boone Jewell and Matt Jones, were jointly indicted by the grand jury of Lee county for the offense of false swearing, denounced by section 1174, Kentucky Statutes (KRS 432.170). Upon their joint trial on this charge, appellants having entered pleas of not guilty…”
Sams v. Commonwealth, 172 S.W.2d 44 (Ky. Ct. App. 1943). “1174, KRS 432.170). Upon trial he was convicted, the jury inflicting punishment by confinement in the penitentiary for *437 one year.”
Self v. Commonwealth, 193 S.W.2d 419 (Ky. Ct. App. 1946). “KRS 432.170. Proof that appellant himself admitted he was trying to “put something over” on his wife and the negro, coupled with the fact that he dismissed the warrant against his wife on the following morning, was sufficient corroboration of the negro’s testimony to meet the…”
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