Case Name: STATE v. WILLIAMS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1904-02-29
Citations: 111 La. 1033
Docket Number: No. 15,127
Parties: STATE v. WILLIAMS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 111
Pages: 1033–1037

Head Matter:
(36 South. 111.)
No. 15,127.
STATE v. WILLIAMS.
(Feb. 29, 1904.)
CRIMINAL LAW—APPEAI^-BILL OP EXCEPTIONS—PERJ URY—INDICTMENT.
On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal.
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.
On the Merits.
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.
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.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; Edward Thomas Lewis, Judge.
Jim Williams was found guilty of perjury. Prom an order sustaining a motion in arrest of judgment, the state appeals.
Affirmed.
Walter Guión, Atty. Gen., and R. Lee Garland, Dist. Atty. (Lewis Guión, of counsel), for the State. Veazie & Pavey,- for appellee.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss the Appeal.
BREADX, J.
The ground of the motion to dismiss is that the record contains neither bill of exception nor assignment of error.
The state, in this case, complains of the order of the trial judge which sustained a motion made in arrest of judgment.
It is true, as alleged, that there was no bill' of exception taken, and no assignment of error filed on the part of the state, hut there was a- motion in arrest of judgment filed and overruled.
The motion in arrest is confined, as to grounds, to defects of law apparent on the face of the record.
It follows that, without a bill of exception or formal assignment of error, the points of law on the motion in arrest are before us on appeal.
The motion to dismiss the appeal is overruled.