Jones

Indictment for perjury, to which a demurrer was sustained. Plaintiff appeals. It was averred in the indictment that a verified complaint was filed in the superior court of -San Diego county wherein one John Long was plaintiff and R. A. Jones, the defendant here, was defendant; Long sought judgment that Jones held the legal title to certain lots in trust for Dong and to compel conveyance thereof.

It was alleged in the indictment, as in Long’s duly verified complaint in his suit against Jones, that one Kampling and wife conveyed certain lots to Long “pursuant to a sale of the said premises from said” Kampling and wife, “as vendors, to said John Long, as vendee, negotiated by the defendant, R. A. Jones, acting as the agent, of said Kampling and wife; that in consideration of part of the purchase price of said property so sold by said Kampling and wife, through said R. A. Jones, as their agent, to said John Long .... the said Long conveyed to said R. A. Jones” certain lots, which Long was induced to do “upon the representation that he, the said Jones, would hold the same in trust” for said Kampling and wife, “and would convey the same to said Mrs. Kampling.” It was alleged also that…