{
  "id": 5107167,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Frank J. Koch, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Koch",
  "decision_date": "1923-12-19",
  "docket_number": "No. 15537",
  "first_page": "557",
  "last_page": "557",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "310 Ill. 557"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 131,
    "char_count": 1475,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.739,
    "sha256": "8d5c96f1d7dcfc11c2dd9dd53b946715808d1e1e5c4fc9bf1c8617ed946b0550",
    "simhash": "1:c6726d9e9b71d79c",
    "word_count": 254
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T18:52:40.361673+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Frank J. Koch, Plaintiff in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dunn\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nFrank J. Koch, the plaintiff in error, was a witness before the grand jury in the criminal court of Cook county, who for his refusal to answer questions was sentenced for contempt of court to imprisonment in the county jail for four months. The grand jury was the same grand jury whose organization and jurisdiction were the subject of consideration'in the case of People v. Brautigan, (ante, p. 472.) The same objections to the grand jury which were made in that case are made in this, and we hold, as we did there, that the organization of the grand jury was void and it was without jurisdiction to summon the plaintiff in error as a witness or to present a complaint against him for contempt in refusing to answer questions.\nThe judgment will be reversed. J 0\nT , , Judgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Dunn"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Litsinger, Healy & Reid, and Thomas E. Swanson, (Edward R. Litsinger, and Lorin C. Collins, of counsel,) for plaintiff in error.",
      "Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General, (Frederick A. Brown, William P. Mac Crac ken, Jr., and George L. Wire, of counsel,) for .the People."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "(No. 15537.\nJudgment reversed.)\nThe People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Frank J. Koch, Plaintiff in Error.\nOpinion filed December 19, 1923\nRehearing denied Feb. 6, 1924.\nThis case is controlled by the decision in People v. Brautigan, (ante, p. 472.)\nWrit oe Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding.\nLitsinger, Healy & Reid, and Thomas E. Swanson, (Edward R. Litsinger, and Lorin C. Collins, of counsel,) for plaintiff in error.\nEdward J. Brundage, Attorney General, (Frederick A. Brown, William P. Mac Crac ken, Jr., and George L. Wire, of counsel,) for .the People."
  },
  "file_name": "0557-01",
  "first_page_order": 557,
  "last_page_order": 557
}