Legal Opinion

Hutcheson v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 25, 1962No. 46PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Judgment of the CourtJustice Harlan

After a trial without a jury, petitioner was found guilty on all 18 counts of an indictment charging him with having violated 2 U. S. C. § 1921 by refusing to answer pertinent questions put to him on June 27,1958, by the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, commonly known as the McClellan Committee. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined $500. The judgment was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, without opinion. We granted certio-rari to consider petitioner's constitutional challenges to his conviction. 365 U. S. 866.

The McClellan…

2Cases cited20 opinions

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