UNITED STATES v. BICKFORD

No. 11801.

168 F.2d 26 (1948)

UNITED STATES v. BICKFORD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 11, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Tansil, U. S. Atty., of Billings, Mont., and Harlow Pease and Emmett C. Angland, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Butte, Mont., for appellant.

Harrison J. Freebourn, of Butte, Mont., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a criminal proceeding for insufficiency of the indictment to state a public offense.

The indictment undertook to charge the crime of perjury as defined in § 125 of the Criminal Code, 18 U.S.C.A. § 231. The language of the charge needful to be considered is as follows: "The defendant Mina Bickford, on or about October 22, 1945, at Butte, in the...

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