MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case draws in question the propriety of the issuance of a federal injunction restraining petitioner, a state officer, from giving evidence in a pending state criminal prosecution and a state administrative proceeding.
The facts, as found by the two lower courts, are as follows. About 8:30 one Saturday morning in September
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