State v. . Flowers

Clark, J.:

The indictment is drawn under chapter 83, Acts 1889, which provides a simple form of indictment for perjury. A motion to quash below was allowed, which action defendant’s counsel seeks to sustain on the ground that the indictment charges the perjury to have been committed upon the trial of an action “in the court of Robert Sanders and W. R. Creech, Justices of the Peace, in and for said county, acting and sitting together,” etc. We fail to see the force of the objection. If the names of the Justices had been left out, the charge of the commission of the perjury “in a court of a…