State v. Oppenheimer

Devine, Associate Justice.

The defendant was indicted for having committed the crime of perjury, and, on motion of defendant, the court quashed the indictment.

The District Attorney appealed from the judgment of the court, and the question presented for our consideration is the sufficiency of the indictment. • The motion of defendant set forth that “ the indictment charged no offense known to the law, and is altogether too vague and indefinite to sustain a verdict.”

The indictment should have stated that the oath was taken and the matter sworn to in some judicial proceeding. (3 Arch. Cr. Prac,…