State v. John

i. indictment: . sufficiency. The indictment is criticised as being defective, in that the precise date of the offense is not stated. No doubt, there is some confusion .in the decisions with respeet to the degree of definiteness required in ¿harging perjury. But section. 5285 of the Code provides that “ the precise time at which the offense was committed need not be stated in the indictment, but it is sufficient, if it allege that it was committed at any time prior to the time of finding thereof, except where time is a material ingredient of the offense.” Section 5289' declares that “ the…