Crow v. State

The indictment in the present case was as follows: “In the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse Mrs. Mattie Crow with the offense of perjury; for that the said Mrs. Mattie Grow on the 12th day of April in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five, in the county aforesaid, did then and there, unlawfully and with force and arms, wilfully, knowingly, and absolutely and falsely swear after a lawful oath had been administered to her, said oath being the oath prescribed by the laws of the State of Georgia to be administered to a witness upon trials of cases and…