State v. Bingham

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Walter Bingham was prosecuted upon a charge of perjury, and the trial resulted in a conviction.

In his appeal he complains that the information was defective in that the offense was not set forth with required fullness and certainty. He complains, too, of the denial of his motion to require an election by the state upon which of two transactions to which the alleged false testimony related it would rely for a conviction, also of the instructions given and of the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

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