Federal Trade Commission v. Emanuel Gladstone, President, Southern Cross Discount Co., Inc.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

Emanuel Gladstone, President of the Southern Cross Discount Company, Inc., appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia holding him in wilful criminal contempt of court and sen tencing him to imprisonment for ten days. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

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This criminal contempt conviction grows out of an investigation of activities of Southern Cross by the Federal Trade Commission. In the course of that investigation, the Federal Trade Commission issued a subpoena duces te-cum to Gladstone requiring that he appear…