People v. Taylor

On September 30, 1969, the Grand Jury returned an indictment in the Circuit Court of Champaign County charging Mathis Taylor, Jr., defendant-appellee with the crime of perjury. The indictment alleged that defendant did, on May 29, 1969, perjure himself in that under oath in a proceeding he made a false statement material to the issue in question * * said statement he did not believe to be true * * (Emphasis supplied.) Defendant moved to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that it failed to allege the proceeding during which the statement was made, that the content of the statement was not…