The Queen v. Chee Wai

Decision of

Dole, J.

The indictment charged the prisoner with perjury in the second degree, committed as a witness in the cause of Chin Hee vs. Ho Kam Ye, et al., a suit in equity, which was tried before the Chief Justice in May last.

*729The defendant demurred to the indictment on the following grounds:

1. That the said indictment does not aver that the facts to which the defendant is alleged to have testified were material or pertinent to, or affected or might affect, the matter in question, to-wit, the alleged minority of the plaintiff, Chin Hee.

2. That none of the facts to which the defendant is…