State v. Kellis

An indictment was returned in the Clark Circuit Court, charging appellee with the crime of perjury, under §2375 Burns 1914, (Acts 1905 p. 584). Appellee’s motion to quash on the ground that the indictment did not state a public offense was sustained, and the state appeals.

The indictment, in substance, states that a regular organized grand jury in the Clark Circuit Court, while acting in the discharge of its duty of detecting crime within the jurisdiction of that court, and “touching a matter material to the point in question,” interrogated appellee, who previously had been then and there…