State v. Ellison

Indictment for perjury. Indictment quashed in the Circuit Court. Two objections are taken to it by the counsel for the defendant. .

1. That the indictment is bad because it does not aver by whom the oath charged to be false was administered.

The allegation upon that point is, that Berry Ellison, &c., wickedly contriving, &c., “ on the thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, at and in the county aforesaid, came in his proper person before John Leslie, Esq., a justice of the peace in and for the county of Warrick aforesaid, and then and there in…