Green v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for false swearing. The indictment charged that “Tom Green did then and there unlawfully, voluntarily, wilfully, and deliberately, under oath make a false statement and affidavit in writing, and signed by him in the following words, that is—, ’ ’ here follows the copy of the affidavit, concluding “sworn to and subscribed to before me this twenty-fourth day of April, 1918. C. R. Wilson, Notary Public, in and for Liberty County, Texas.”

The sufficiency of the indictment is challenged by motion to quash, and by averments in the motion for new trial equivalent to…