Adamson v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years upon a conviction for perjury.

Motion was made to quash the indictment upon the ground that there was a failure to charge that the alleged false statement before the grand jury was material to the matter under investigation before that body. An inspection of the indictment reveals the absence of such allegations. If this were a question of first impression the writer would be inclined to the view that, taking the indictment as a whole, the materiality of the alleged false statement is shown, but there is a long line of…