State v. Roche

On December 18, 1906, information was filed before a justice of the peace of Union county, Iowa, charging the defendant herein with the crime of carrying concealed weapons in said county, in that said defendant did carry a concealed weapon, a revolver, contrary to the statute in' such case made and provided. On this information the defendant was arrested and brought to trial before said magistrate, and in the course of said trial was examined - as a witness in his own behalf. Thereafter the grand jury of said county returned an indictment charging the defendant with having committed perjury…