People v. Kleinman

The principal question presented by this motion is whether or not the judgment of acquittal in the perjury case must be accepted as conclusive evidence of the fact that the defendant did not know and had not met Louis Luckman or any of the Luck-mans prior to the time when he so testified in June, 1936, at the conspiracy trial.

The conspiracy and perjury indictments together with the minutes of the perjury trial were furnished for use on this motion, and it definitely appears therefrom that the only question before the jury was: Did the defendant know or had he met Louis Luckman when he…