Deckard v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The appellant was indicted for perjury in the Circuit Court for Washington County. The indictment which was transmitted to the Circuit Court for Frederick County for trial, was in the following form: State op Maryland, Washington County, to wit: The jurors of the State of Maryland, for the body of Washington County, do on their oaths present, that heretofore, to wit, on the 11th of.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The appellant was indicted for perjury in the Circuit Court for Washington County. The indictment which was transmitted to the Circuit Court for Frederick County for trial, was in the following form: State op Maryland, Washington County, to wit: The jurors of the State of Maryland, for the body of Washington County, do on their oaths present, that heretofore, to wit, on the 11th of. July, 1872, the Honorable William Motter, Associate Judge of the Circuit Court for Washington County, by the authority vested in him by the Constitution and laws…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The appellant has been tried and found guilty of the crime of perjury. The only matter to be reviewed on this appeal is the judgment overruling a general demurrer to the indictment. The exception taken at the trial to the ruling upon the admissibility of evidence has been very properly abandoned in this Court without argument. The correctness of that ruling is too clear to admit of a moment’s doubt, and if the appeal rested alone upon lhat exception, there would have been great impropriety of conduct on the part of counsel for the accused in making the affidavit required by the Act of 1872,…
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