Ackerman v. Houston

In November, 1933, Abraham Ackerman presented to the justice of the peace of the Tucson precinct a criminal complaint charging Mrs. Eleanor Hill with the crime of perjury alleged to have been committed by her while testifying in a case entitled, “Abraham Ackerman v. Southern Arizona Bank and Trust Company,’ and requested that officer to file it and issue a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Hill, but he refused. Some days later Ackerman took the matter up with the county attorney and requested him to proceed with the prosecution but he likewise declined. So on the 12th of December, following, he…