Pence v. State

The defendant, Will Pence, was convicted of perjury. He made a motion in arrest of judgment, and an amendment to it, *269alleging that the indictment and the verdict and sentence based thereon are void because the indictment “is fatally defective and void and charges no offense under the law,” and “does not specifically allege how and wherein the testimony upon which the perjury is assigned was material to the issue in the trial in which the alleged false testimony was delivered, neither does it allege what was the issue before the said justice court, nor how the same was raised, and that the…