State v. Owen

The defendant was convicted at the December term, 1874, on an indictment charging him with the crime of perjury, and his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The case is before us on áppeal.

1. perjury: pleading, criminal.

On the trial defendant objected to the introduction of any evidence for the reason, among others, that no averment was made in the indictment that the 0ath taken by defendant was administered by an officer duly authorized and empowered to administer it. This objection was overruled, and in this, according to the rule laid down in the case of…