Pankey v. People

This case comes before the Court on a writ of error. The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, and convicted on a charge of perjury, in the Circuit Court of Pope county. A new trial was afterwards awarded, the venue in the case changed to Johnson county, where a second trial and conviction was had. The plaintiff in error, while the cause was pending in the Circuit Court of Pope, and before pleading to the indictment, interposed a motion to quash the indictment, which was overruled by the Court: afterwards a bill of exceptions to the decision of the Johnson Circuit Court was taken by consent…