State v. Cruikshank

This was an indictment for perjury. The charge, so far as any question in this case is concerned, is as follows: That on, &o., at, &c., the defendant made an affidavit that a certain steamboat at the landing at Vincennes, laden in part with certain goods, &c., to be delivered at Vincennes, &c., of the value of $9,000 as the defendant believed, was attempting to pass said place of delivery without delivering said freight; whereas, in truth and in fact, at, &c., the defendant did not believe that the said steamboat, then at the landing at Vincennes, &c., was attempting to pass said place of…