State v. Green
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Ouachita Circuit Cowrt. Hon. John T. Bearden circuit judge. The indictment contains all the requisites oí a good and sufficient indictment. Gold’s Dig.-, ch. 51, sec. 7, 361; Wh. A. Gr. Law, 2191. The substance of the oath need only be stated in an indictment for perjury. JRoscoe Or. Evidence, 749, 750, 766.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clendenin
Isaac Green was indicted in the circuit court of Ouachita, at the December term, 1866, for the crime of perjury. He was arrested and plead not guilty, and on the trial the jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment; and the defendant then by his counsel moved in arrest of judgment, which motion being sustained the;defendant was discharged, and the state sued out her writ of error to this court.
The indictment charges, after a formal and proper caption, that Isaac Green, (a freedman) late of the county of Ouachita aforesaid, was then and there duly subpoenaed to appear and give evidence…
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