People v. Ashbrook

Charles Ashbrook was convicted of perjury in the circuit court of Champaign county and seeks a reversal of the judgment for error of the court in overruling his motion in arrest of judgment on the ground of the insufficiency of the indictment.

The indictment consisted of two counts. The objections made to it are, that neither count describes the character of the offense charged in the proceedings in which the alleged false testimony was given or the nature of such proceedings; that there is no averment that the alleged false testimony was material to the point in issue in those proceedings and…