A plea in abatement, or other dilatory plea to an indictment, shall not be received, unless the same be verified by the oath of the defendant.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 59, art. 1(50); 1857, ch. 64, art. 296; 1871, § 2760; 1880, § 3010; 1892, § 1352; 1906, § 1424; Hemingway's 1917, § 1180; 1930, § 1204; 1942, § 2447.
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