Balz v. Coquillette

1. Habeas corpus scope of inquiry commitment to grand jury: review. The plaintiff herein, E. L. Balz, is the secretary of an insurance benefit association known as The Modern Brotherhood of America. On September 28, 1914, a preliminary information was filed before one Nugent, a justice of the peace at Cedar . Rapids, Iowa, charging that Balz, m publishing a report of the expenditures of the brotherhood for the month of August, 1913, included therein an item reading as follows: “Field expense, sundry amounts as per itemized .statement, $27,405.47”; that the statement so made was false; that…