¶1A majority of the Court is of opinion that the offence set forth in the first count of the information, amounts to perjury under the statute. And as to the motion to quash the information, the Judges are unanimously of opinion, that the motion should not be sustained: But the party should be put to his demurrer, if he be so advised. Which is ordered to be certified.
6 Va. 691
Commonwealth v. Litton
Decided December 15, 1849
General Court of Virginia · decided 1849-12-15
This was an information founded on a presentment of the grand jury, in the Circuit court of Jackson county, at its March term 1849, against David Litton. The first count of the information set out with great particularity, that Matthew B. Armstrong, the administrator of William H. Armstrong, obtained from a justice of Jackson county, a warrant in debt against Litton. That this warrant went into the hands of a constable, and was duly served.
Decided 1849-12-15