State v. Williams

Citations

• 111 La. 1033
• 36 So. 111
• 1904 La. LEXIS 594

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW—APPEAI^-BILL OP EXCEPTIONS—PERJ URY—INDICTMENT.</p> <p>On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal.</p> <p>1. Points raised on the motion in arrest of judgment (being of law) may be brought up on appeal, without the necessity of a formal bill of exception or an assignment of error.</p> <p>On the Merits.</p> <p>2. An information or indictment for perjury must contain an averment that the testimony-was false to the knowledge of the accused charged with having perjured himself as a witness.</p> <p>3. It is as in the case of subornation of perjury, in which the pleader is required to charge that the accused knew that the witness suborned would testify to a fact he (the witness) knew to be false. Commonwealth v. Douglass, 5 Mete. (Mass.) 241.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>