Hardeman v. State

The plaintiff in error excepted to the-overruling, of his demurrer to an indictment alleging perjury as follows-: "In the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse *426Tom Hardeman of the county and State aforesaid, with the offense of perjury; for that the said Tom Hardeman, in the county aforesaid, on the 4th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-five, unlawfully and with force and arms, did, after a lawful oath had been administered to him, wilfully, knowingly, absolutely, and falsely swear without the laying the hand on the Holy Evangelist of…