State v. Adams

This was an indictment for perjury. The charge is that the defendant wilfully, corruptly, &c. made a false affidavit of his being an actual settler on a certain tract *147of public land, and that by means of that affidavit, he applied to eater the land under the act of congress of the 5th of April, 1832. The Circuit Court, on the defendant’s motion, quashed the indictment for want of jurisdiction.

*146Jiote.—Judge M’Kinney was absent, in consequence of indisposition, during the whole of this term.

*147The only question for our consideration is, whether the Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the cause or not?