People v. Cash

Defendant was convicted by a jury in Oakland County Circuit Court on three counts of perjury. MCLA § 750.422 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.664). The testimony alleged to be false was given before one-man grand juror Judge Philip Pratt in 1966. Only four of defendant’s numerous assignments of error merit discussion.

Defendant contends that the original and amended informations charging him with perjury are fatally defective in that neither contain any reference whatsoever to the materiality of the alleged falsehoods. Defendant claims that there must be some averment of materiality or, at the very…