People v. Florentine

The appellant was called as a witness before the Grand Jury of Jefferson County in the course of its investigation of gambling charges preferred against one Jack Cohen. He had been previously arrested and arraigned in the City Court of Watertown on a charge of keeping a place for a game of policy in violation of section 974 of the Penal Law. He had made a sworn statement before the City Court and refused to testify before the Grand Jury on the ground that his testimony might tend to disclose that he had committed perjury in making the sworn statement before the City Court. He was ordered by…