Flint v. People

Campbell, J.:

Error is brought on a conviction of perjury, the only error assigned relating to the sufficiency of the information. An error assigned on the want of an assignment and plea turns out to be ill-founded.

The perjury is alleged to have been committed on a criminal examination, and it is claimed it does not sufficiently appear that such an examination was legally had. It does appear very explicitly that the perjury was committed on the examination of one George Silsby, at a court held by Edmund S. Tracy, a justice of the peace at Charlotte, Eaton county, on the 18th day of March,…