People v. Coleman

This case involves an alleged attempt to obstruct justice. The facts are simple. The defendant, William Coleman, had been charged with a violation of the small loan act, CL 1948, § 493.1 (Stat Ann 1957 Rev § 23.667), and his trial date set. One William Jordan had been subpoenaed as a witness for the people. Jordan was married, but his wife was ignorant of the fact that he had been “running .around” (the expression is his) with a young woman. The ignorance of the wife, however, was not shared by defendant Coleman. Apparently Coleman was, as the saying goes, nobody’s fool, for the fact that a…