State v. Phippen
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Henry District Court. The defendant was convicted of the crime of perjury. The facts involved in the question of law ruled by this court appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. Numerous questions arising upon objections to the indictment, and upon the instructions given and refused, are discussed by defendant’s counsel. ¥e find it necessary to consider but one objection to the validity of the judgment of conviction, which meets us at the threshold of the case, and prevents escape from the reversal of the judgment of the court below.
The indictment charges defendant with the crime of perjury committed in falsely swearing to the assessment of property for taxation. It alleges that the perjury was committed on the 15th day of January, 1880, and that the oath was…
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