In Re Rogers

The petitioner was subpoenaed before the grand jury sitting in the city and county of San Francisco, and having been sworn as a witness before that body, there were propounded to him certain interrogatories. Upon his refusal to answer, the foreman of the grand jury made affidavit setting forth at length the questions which had been propounded to the contumacious witness, and stating that the body of which he was foreman was engaged in the consideration of a charge of felony against one John M. Chretien as to whether said John M. Chretien had forged the indorsement “John Sullivan” on a check.…