Poupard v. Judge of Recorder's Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Henry G. Poupard to compel Robert E. Frazer, acting judge of the recorder’s court of Detroit, to vacate an order requiring relator to answer certain interrogatories in a proceeding for contempt.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, C. J.
The relator was a juror upon the trial of Edward Ascher for murder, duly sworn. At the conclusion of the trial he was arrested by order of the judge of the recorder’s court to answer for contempt of court upon charges of improper conduct as a juror upon said trial. In the course of this proceeding interrogatories were filed and served, whereupon a motion was made by counsel for the relator to strike out from the interrogatories Nos. 11 to 50, inclusive, upon the ground that whatever occurred in the jury room and between jurors during the course of the trial was privileged, and upon the…
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