In Re Cooper

This is an application by the cited witness for a writ of certiorari to review the issuance by Common Pleas Judge Davidson, at the instance of a defendant (one Buchalter), of a summons commanding him to appear and testify in the trial of the cause of People v. Louis Buchalter, et ah, in the County Court, Part II, of the County of Kings, in the State of New York, a criminal prosecution now in process of trial, in the exercise of what was conceived to be authority conferred by chapter 88 of the laws of 1941 (Pamph. L. 1941, p. 200; R. S. C. 2:97-27); and the inquiry is whether a fairly…