Barnes v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of perjury, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

There is no statement of facts accompanying the record, so the sole questions to be passed on are presented in the motion to quash the indictment, and in bill of exceptions No. 1. One ground of the motion to quash the indictment is that the indictment showing on its face that the oath was administered by the county attorney, under the direction of the foreman of the grand jury, the indictment should be quashed, as the county attorney is not authorized to…