People v. Argo
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. A. H. Chrtlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers
This is a writ of error sued out of this court by Horace Argo to the Branch Appellate Court for the First District to bring up for review the record of a judgment affirming the conviction of plaintiff in error on a charge of contempt of court in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him by the grand jury of Cook county.
The plaintiff in error was regularly brought before the grand jury as a witness, and upon being interrogated he refused to answer, on the ground that his answers might tend to incriminate him by furnishing evidence connecting him with gambling and keeping common…
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