People v. Gaige

Christiancy, Ch. J.

The defendant was convicted, in the circuit court for *31the county of Hillsdale, of perjury, in swearing to an affidavit verifying a bill in chancery filed by him against one Luther N. Tyler. The oath to the bill was in the usual form of such oath when the bill is required to be sworn to. The information as amended (for we do not think it necessary to consider the propriety of the amendment), does not describe the nature or object of the bill, nor does it aver that it contained any prayer for an injunction, preliminary or perpetual, nor for any preliminary order of any kind;…