Chapman v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by a defendant indicted for and convicted of violating secs. 102, 103 and-104. R. S. U. S., in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him before a Senate investigating committee.
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Hearing on an appeal by a defendant indicted for and convicted of violating secs. 102, 103 and-104. R. S. U. S., in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him before a Senate investigating committee. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. 1. The provision found in sec. 104 R. S., that the District Attorney may lay the case before the grand jury when he has received a certificate, under the seal of the Senate, is a prohibition of, or a negative upon, the laying of said matters before the grand jury in the absence of such a certificate. Parker's Case, 9 Cr. 69 ; Earley s…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
This is the second appeal in this case. The case was formerly before us on an appeal specially allowed from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia overruling a demurrer to the indictment; and we then affirmed that order and sustained the validity of the indictment. The case being remanded to the court below came on in due time for trial; and upon trial the appellant, Elver-ton R. Chapman, was found guilty under the indictment. Upon exceptions taken to the rulings of the trial court and from an order overruling a motion in arrest of judgment the present appeal has been…
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- Cross v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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