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FETTERS v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CUNNINGHAM

No. 720.

283 U.S. 638 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 596

75 L.Ed. 1321

FETTERS, U.S. MARSHAL, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CUNNINGHAM.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Ruby R. Vale, with whom Messrs. John W. Dickerson, Otto Kraus, Jr., and Benjamin M. Golder were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

On April 20, 1928, an indictment was returned by a grand jury in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, charging the respondent Cunningham with a violation of § 102, R.S.,* (U.S.C., Title 2, § 192), in having refused to answer pertinent questions put to him by a committee of the United States Senate. It is not necessary...

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