Johnson v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of perjury and his punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law.

There was no motion to 'quash the indictment made in the lower court, but there was a motion, made some nine days after the trial, in arrest of judgment .claiming that the indictment was insufficient. The indictment follows substantially, if not literally, the form therefor in White’s Ann. P. C., see. 334, and Willson’s, Ho. 137, in his 4th Ed. of forms therefor."

“If the indictment alleges that the false statement was material to the issue on trial it is sufficient without…