The PEOPLE v. Lurie

Respondent, Harold Lurie, appeals directly from a circuit court of Cook County order holding him in contempt of court for his refusal to obey a subpoena duces tecum, commanding the production of certain books and records of Gaylur Mercantile Corporation before the April 1966 grand jury.

The subpoena directed to respondent, the president of Gaylur, recited that the grand jury was conducting an investigation against “John Doe, et al, pertaining to frauds perpetrated against the Insurance Company of North America” and commanded him to produce, on a day certain, the following: “Your books and…