Williams v. People

The defendant was convicted of the crime of perjury, and he prosecutes this writ of error to set aside the sentence, for the following reasons: First, the information as filed did not charge a criminal offense, and particularly was this true after the court withdrew from the jury’s consideration a portion of the charges therein set out; second, the information was not signed by any officer authorized by the statute to present and sign such pleadings ; third, the admission, over defendant’s objection, of hearsay testimony offered by the people.

1. Among other essential elements of the crime of…