The People v. Mahumed

Defendant in error, Leah Mahumed, was charged, in the municipal court of Chicago, with violating section 3 of an act entitled, “An Act in relation to certain causes of action conducive to extortion and blackmail, and to declare illegal, contracts and acts made and done in pursuance thereof.” The charge was laid in an information alleging that she “unlawfully, intentionally, and maliciously, did, then and there, name one Dorothy Tourssen as corespondent in a .certain suit for separate maintenance filed of record in the Circuit Court of Cook county on the 4th day of September, A. D. 1941,…