State v. Cannon

Philips, C.

The defendant was indicted at the May term of the circuit court for Cape Girardeau county, for perjury, for making false affidavit to his property list for assessment.

As the indictment was quashed for insufficiency, it is necessary to present such portions of it as bear upon the questions to be decided. It charges, in substance, that the assessment was made for the year beginning August 1st, 1878, “that in the execution and performance of his (the assessor’s) said duty as such assessor, the said Henry L. Caldwell (the assessor) on the 12th day of March, 1879, called at the office…