United States v. Seymour

MUNGER, District Judge.

By a demurrer, which in effect is a general demurrer, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the charge against him in the indictment. The indictment contains eight counts, similar in nature. In each it is alleged that the defendant violated section 125 of the Penal Code of the United States (18 U. S. Code § 231 [18 USCA § 231]) which provides: “Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any ease in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly,…