State v. Chamberlin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for peijury in an answer to a bill in chancery. The indictment set forth that Moses Buchanan, 2d., on the 15th of January, 1856, exhibited his certain bill of complaint, in writing, against the respondent and others, naming them, in the court of chancery within and for the county of Orange, then being in session at Chelsea, which bill was directed to the chancellor of the second judiial circuit of the State of Vermont; that the said Buchanan in said bill of…
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Indictment for peijury in an answer to a bill in chancery. The indictment set forth that Moses Buchanan, 2d., on the 15th of January, 1856, exhibited his certain bill of complaint, in writing, against the respondent and others, naming them, in the court of chancery within and for the county of Orange, then being in session at Chelsea, which bill was directed to the chancellor of the second judiial circuit of the State of Vermont; that the said Buchanan in said bill of complaint, stated, among other things, that on the 20th of February, 1854, Mehitable B. Chamberlin, then wife of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bennett, J.
This was an indictment for perjury, in making-oath to an answer to a bill in chancery, and the case comes up upon a motion in arrest, and also upon exceptions, taken on the trial before the traverse jury.
Several objections have been taken to the sufficiency of the indictment, and the most formidable one is, that it does not sufficiently appear that the answer was sworn to in a judicial proceeding.
Though our statute has declared that it shall be sufficient in an *569indictment for perjury, to set forth the substance of the offence charged, yet, I…
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