State v. Kirkpatrick

English, Ch. J.:

Kirkwood was indicted for perjury, in the Circuit Court of Clark County, at the April Term, 1876; the indictment charging in substance:

That “said J. H. Kirkpatrick, at, etc., on the 10th day of January, 1876, did wilfully, corruptly, and falsely swear before R. R. Ross, Deputy Clerk of Jesse A. Ross, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clark County, he, the said R. R. Ross, being authorized by law to administer oaths ; that he had not thereupon had the benefit of an Act of Congress approved May 20th, 1862, entitled 1 An act to secure a homestead to actual''settlers on the \ public…