Blakey v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court bt

Chief Justice Carroll

Affirming.

At the May term, 1918, of tbe Logan circuit court the grand jury returned an indictment charging Blakey-with the crime of false swearing, committed as follows:

“The said Blakey heretofore, within one year before the finding of this indictment, to-wit, on the.................. A. L. 19......, in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully, feloniously and knowingly swear, depose and give in evidence that which was untrue and false before the grand jury of Logan county, in an investigation judicially pending and before and being tried…