Edward Douglass White

“ The description, in the indictment, of the proceeding in which the perjury was committed, is as follows:
'. . . Sitting as a grand jury . . . and, among other matters, inquiring into certain criminal violations of the laws of the said United States relating to the public lands and the disposal of the same, and the unlawful fencing thereof, which had then lately before been committed within the said district.' That this description adequately advised the defendant as to the identity of the proceeding in which the perjury was committed is settled by the following authorities: Markham v. ”

“ Rep. 288; Williamson v. United States, 207 U.S. 425, 52 L. ed. 278, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 163; Rosen v. United States, 161 U.S. 29, 34, 40, 40 L. ed. 606, 607, 609, 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 434, 480, 10 Am. Crim. Rep. 251; Dunbar v. United States, 156 U.S. 185, 192, 39 L. ed. 390, 393, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 325; Bannon v. United States, 156 U.S. 464, 468, 39 L. ed. 494, 496, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 467, 9 Am. Crim. Rep. 338; Coffin v. United States, 156 U.S. 432, 452, 39 L. ed. 481, 490, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 394; and Kirby v. United States, 174 U.S. 47, 64, 43 L. ed. 890, 897, 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 574, 11 Am. Crim. Rep. 330. ”