JUDGMENT
ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J.S.C. delivered the judgment of the court. This appeal is against the conviction of the appellant on the 23rd June, 1962, by the Western Circuit Court on a charge of perjury contrary to section 210 (1) of the Criminal Code, 1960, *1 the particulars being that:
"On 19th February 1951 at Sekondi … in a written statement made upon oath before Joseph Herbert Ghansah, Commissioner of Oaths, a public officer, you did state that you were one of the subscribing witnesses to the last will of one John Essel Ansah alias Essel Ansah, late of Takoradi deceased; that the testator executed the said will on the date thereon in your presence and that of one Kofi Bissue the other subscribing witness thereto, both of you being present at the same time and both of you attested and subscribed the said will in the presence of the testator, which statement you knew to be false."
The written statement which was sworn to and is the subject-matter of the charge was admitted as exhibit A a…