People v. Omacht

Defendant George W. Omacht was tried and found guilty of conspiring to corrupt the 1939 legislature of the State of Michi gan. The facts are sufficiently stated in People v. Hancock, ante, 471, and People v. Cooper, post, 514.

The controlling question is whether the defendant had a fair trial as guaranteed by the Constitution of Michigan and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Omacht was a witness before the one-man grand jury. At his trial he testified in his own behalf. During his cross-examination reference was made and quotations were read to him from his…