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269 S.W.2d 196

Commonwealth v. Pierce

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided June 4, 1954

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1954-06-04

Relies on Commonwealth v. Hinkle · Commonwealth v. Strunk

Decided 1954-06-04

STANLEY, Commissioner.

¶1The Commonwealth asks a review of an order sustaining a demurrer to an indictment for false swearing.

¶2The indictment charged C. E. Pierce with that offense committed by making a false affidavit that “at an election for precinct committeeman and precinct committeewoman” two named persons, each of whom was “a registered Republican, voted illegally in said election” for two named persons for committeeman and committeewoman. The indictment contains the usual legal terms and allegations of an indictment for false swearing. However, nowhere is stated under what auspices the election was held or what for, nor that the alleged false affidavit was made “in any matter which is or may be judicially pending or which is being investigated by a grand jury, or on any subject in which he [any person] can legally be sworn or on which he is required to be sworn”. KRS 432.170. The only provision which it could be said was violated is that the oath concerned a subject on which the accused was or could have been sworn legally. The demurrer was properly sustained. Commonwealth v. *197Hinkle, 177 Ky. 22, 197 S.W. 455; Commonwealth v. Strunk, 260 Ky. 35, 83 S.W.2d 861.

¶3The law is so certified.

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