People v. Ostrander
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Oakland; Carpenter, J. , presiding. Eugene Ostrander was convicted of perjury. The respondent was convicted of perjury, alleged to have been committed upon the trial of one Campbell for burglary committed in the city of Pontiac.
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Exceptions before judgment from Oakland; Carpenter, J. , presiding. Eugene Ostrander was convicted of perjury. The respondent was convicted of perjury, alleged to have been committed upon the trial of one Campbell for burglary committed in the city of Pontiac. Upon the trial of Campbell the theory of the defense was that one Gulick committed the crime, and the respondent and several other Avitnesses testified to seeing him in Pontiac the evening prior to its commission, and early on the morning following. It is stated in the brief of counsel for the respondent that two of these witnesses had…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). 1. Some of the jurors in the Campbell case were permitted, under objection and exception, to testify that the defense in that case claimed, from the evidence, that Gulick committed the crime. Respondent’s counsel elicited, on cross-examination of one of these witnesses, the fact that Gulick, upon the trial of Campbell, testified that he' bought 500 cigars of Campbell, who told him that he had stolen them. These witnesses had given evidence that respondent testified upon that trial that he saw Gulick in Pontiac at the time stated. The respondent’s testimony was also…
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