Mary Jane Keeney v. United States

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a former employee of the United Nations, was a witness before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. She was asked whether anyone in the State Department had aided her in obtaining employment with the United Nations.' She did not answer, and asserted a privilege not to answer by reason of the Charter and the Staff Rules of the United. Nations. On the theory that she had “refused” to answer, she was prosecuted for contempt of Congress. Rev. Stat. § 102, as amended, 52 Stat. 942, 2 U.S.C.A. § 192. The District Court…