Blim v. United States

FITZHENRY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence of the District Court, on October 3, 1933’, for contempt of court, upon a finding that appellant, while a witness before the grand jury, had failed to testify truthfully, and by said failure had obstructed and was obstructing justice in the court. Appellant was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a period of three months, with the privilege of purging himself of said contempt within ten days by fully, freely, and truthfully testifying.

On July 31, 1933, the grand jury for the Northern district of Illinois,…