United States v. Bickford

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a criminal proceeding for insufficiency of the indictment to state a public offense.

The indictment undertook to charge the crime of perjury as defined in § 125 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 231. The language of the charge needful to be considered is as follows: “The defendant Mina Bickford, on or about October 22, 1945, at Butte, in the District of Montana and within the jurisdiction of this court, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana then and there engaged in the trial of a criminal cause…