Slay v. State

Appellant was indicted1, tried and convicted in tbe circuit court of Nevada County upon an indictment charging him with perjury, and, as punishment .therefor, was adjudged to serve a term of one year in tbe State Penitentiary. Sufficiency of tbe indictment was challenged by demurrer, which was overruled by the ' court, over the objection and exception of appellant. The indictment, omitting formal parts, is as follows:

1 “The grand jury of Nevada Couhty, in the name ' and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuses Mann Slay of the crime of perjury, committed as follows, to-wit: The said…