STATE v. WILSON

No. 7525SC772.

226 S.E.2d 518 (1976)

30 N.C. App. 149

STATE of North Carolina v. John J. WILSON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 21, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Senior Deputy Atty. Gen. R. Bruce White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. Zoro J. Guice, Jr. and Associate Atty. Gen. Guy Hamlin, Raleigh, for the State.

Wilson & Palmer by W. C. Palmer and G. C. Simmons, III, Lenoir, for defendant-appellant.


PARKER, Judge.

Defendant first assigns error to the denial of his motion to quash the indictment. He contends that it lacks "such certainty in the statement of accusation as will identify with particularity the offense sought to be charged." We do not agree.

The essential elements of the crime of perjury, as defined by common law and extended by G.S. 14-209, are substantially these: "a false statement under oath, knowingly, willfully and designedly made, in...

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