Case Name: The State v. Kirk, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1896-01-21
Citations: 132 Mo. 175
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Kirk, Appellant.
Judges: Sherwood and Burgess, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 175–176

Head Matter:
The State v. Kirk, Appellant.
Division Two,
January 21, 1896.
Pleading, Criminal: perjury: indictment. The ease of State v. Buekéby, 87 Mo. 414, and other eases, as to the sufficiency of an indictment for perjury, approved.
Appeal from Greene Criminal Court.
Aeeirmed.
B. F. Walker, attorney general, for the state.
The indictment in this case is sufficient. It clearly and fully charges the crime of perjury of which the defendant was chárged and has been convicted. Its allegations are full and complete, and notified and apprised the defendant of the charge he was required to meet. R. S. 1889, sec. 3665; State v. Cave, 81 Mo. 450; State v. Huckeby, 87 Mo. 414. This indictment is almost in the language of the indictment in the case of the State v. Buck, 130 Mo. 480, recently approved by this court.

Opinion:
Gantt, P. J.
At the March term, 1895, of the criminal court of Greene county, the defendant was indicted for perjury committed in the trial of Jake Cardwell for robbery at the same term before Hon. J. J. Gideon, judge. At the same term defendant was duly arraigned, tried, and convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years. He was accorded sixty days from August 14,1895, in which to file a bill of exceptions, but none is certified in the transcript of the appeal from that court, which was transmitted to this court on November 19, 1895. The record proper does not even disclose that a motion in arrest or for new trial was filed in the criminal court. A careful examination of the record discovers no fault in the indictment. In form and substance it. conformed to the requirements of our statute, section 3665, Revised Statutes, 1889, and decisions of this court in State v. Cave, 81 Mo. 450; State v. Huckeby, 87 Mo. 414, and the recent case of State v. Buck, 130 Mo. 480. The judgment is affirmed.
Sherwood and Burgess, JJ., concur.