State v. Jackson

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment of conviction entered upon the verdict of a jury and from an order denying a new trial.

1. At the outset counsel for defendant challenge the suffi ciency of the information upon a number of grounds. It charges that defendant wilfully, wrongfully, feloniously, knowingly and falsely stated as true that he saw Martin Ernst on Tuesday, the eighteenth day of June, 1929, at about the hour of 11 o’clock, at the home of defendant at Broadwater near Helena, Montana; that when defendant returned from a shopping trip in Helena to his home on June 18, 1929,…