The People v. Cravens

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Wayne county of subornation of perjury and brings the cause here for review. The indictment charged that he procured and incited one Roy Smith to corruptly and falsely swear in a trial of a bastardy case in the county court of Wayne county, at its February, 1939, term.

It is charged, here, that it was error to refuse to quash the indictment; also, that the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial on the grounds of defendant’s motion therefor, the principal one of which was that he had been denied a fair trial by an impartial jury, in…