United States v. Bedgood
District Court, D. Alabama
At Law. Prosecution of Prances P. Bedgood for perjury. On demurrer to the indictment. The indictmenpwas in the following words: “The grand jurors of the United States of America, chosen, selected, and. sworn within and for the southern district of Alabama, in the name and by the authority of the United States of America, upon their oaths do find and present that P «unces P. Bedgood, whose other name to this grand jury is unknown, late of the district aforesaid, heretofore,…
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At Law. Prosecution of Prances P. Bedgood for perjury. On demurrer to the indictment. The indictmenpwas in the following words: “The grand jurors of the United States of America, chosen, selected, and. sworn within and for the southern district of Alabama, in the name and by the authority of the United States of America, upon their oaths do find and present that P «unces P. Bedgood, whose other name to this grand jury is unknown, late of the district aforesaid, heretofore, to-wit, on or about the thirtieth day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and before the finding of this…
1Opinion of the Court
Toulmin, District Judge.
The defendant is charged in this indictment with false swearing in making final proof of her pre-emption entry. The affidavit alleged to have been made by her is set out substantially in the indictment, and it is averred that she made oath to the affidavit before ÍL R. Leigh, judge and ex officio clerk of the probate court of Escambia county, Ala. There is no such thing as final proof required by the statute in pre-emption entries. The proof is primary or original, and the proof required, and therefore material, is as to settlement and improvement. Sections 2259-2263,…
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