People v. Newmark

The grand jury of the circuit court of Lake county, at its March term, 1923, had under investigation the conduct of jurors in the case of People v. Len Small. May 26 plaintiff in error, Ben Newmark, was subpoenaed as a witness before said grand jury. Theretofore, on April 23, he had been charged in a criminal complaint filed by the State’s attorney of said county before a justice of the peace with the offense of conspiring with certain other persons “to do an illegal act injurious to the administration of public jus-' tice by persuading and inducing certain witnesses having knowledge of…