People v. Hoffa

Tips case resulted from a one-man grand-jury inquiry, conducted in Wayne county by the Hon. George B. Murphy, one of the circuit judges of said county. The proceeding was instituted May 14, 1946, on the petition of the prosecuting attorney of said county. Following the examination of a number of witnesses, including the appellee Herman Prujansky, the circuit judge, under date of September 7, 1946, issued a warrant against defendants Hoffa, DeMass and Stewart. The first count of said warrant charged the offense of criminal conspiracy to obtain a certain sum of money, by means of false…