People v. Kert

Charles Kert was charged with having committed perjury, while testifying at the examination of a large number of defendants before Honorable Homer Ferguson, a circuit judge for Wayne county, sitting as a magistrate and conservator of the peace in the case of People v. Elmer Ryan, James Watkins, et al. The case before the magistrate was the outgrowth of an investigation in a one-man grand-jury proceeding, which resulted in charges of a conspiracy to obstruct justice being made against Elmer Ryan and others, including a large number of public officials and police officers, Inspector Watkins…