The People v. Johnson

A grand jury in Cook county returned an indictment on October 3, 1930, against A1 Johnson, Max Johnson and Sam Levin. It contained one count and charged them with conspiracy to defraud the State of Illinois out of a large sum of money. It was stricken with leave to re-instate and was later re-instated and quashed. In March, 1933, the grand jury returned another indictment against said defendants and the Consumers Gas and Oil Company, a corporation. This indictment contained two counts each of which alleged that the crime charged therein was the same crime charged in the original indictment.

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