Smaldone v. People

Pursuant to subpoena Clarence Smaldone, hereinafter referred to either by name or as the witness, appeared before a grand jury then sitting in Jefferson County, which body according to the District Attorney had been empaneled to “probe gambling activities in the Denver Metropolitan area.”

After being sworn the witness in response to questions propounded to him by the District Attorney gave only his name and address and then refused to answer a series of questions put to him by the District Attorney, his refusal being on the ground that his answers thereto “might tend to incriminate me,…