The People v. Cohen

Phillip Cohen, Jack Fox, Morris Ratner and Phillip Greenberg were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of burning to defraud. Cohen and Fox were granted a separate trial. They were found guilty by a jury and were sentenced to the penitentiary. The cause is here by writ of error.

Ratner and Greenberg were the principal witnesses for the People. After the term at which the judgment was entered had expired, plaintiffs in error filed a petition in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis alleging that Greenberg had repudiated his testimony and admitted he lied. The petition…