State v. Gibson

The defendant having been convicted of perjury appeals from the judgment sentencing him to hard labor for five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges: “ That Henry Gibson, late of the parish_ aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of August, 1873, with force,and arms, *72in the parish, district, and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Judicial District Court, while under oath as a witness before the grand jury, the oath requii ed by law having been duly administered by J. A. Ducourneau, foreman of the grand jury, who had authority by law to administer said oath, and…