Ex parte Butt
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Certiorari to Pulaski Circuit Court; Robert J. Lea, Judge; If the questions which petitioner declined to answer were illegal and improper, whether from impertinence, immateriality or other cause, the court exceeded its authority in adjudging him guilty of contempt for refusing to - answer them. Kirby’s Digest, § 720, subdiv. 5; 9 Cyc. 18; 71 Cal. 238; 131 Cal. 280; 38 Kan. 408; 28 Am.
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Certiorari to Pulaski Circuit Court; Robert J. Lea, Judge; If the questions which petitioner declined to answer were illegal and improper, whether from impertinence, immateriality or other cause, the court exceeded its authority in adjudging him guilty of contempt for refusing to - answer them. Kirby’s Digest, § 720, subdiv. 5; 9 Cyc. 18; 71 Cal. 238; 131 Cal. 280; 38 Kan. 408; 28 Am. St. 451 and note; 3 Blatchf. 113; Ib., 148; 34 Tex. 666; 46 Neb. 402. Our constitutional provision securing witnesses against self-accusation is identical with the Federal Constitution on the same subject. If…
1Opinion of the CourtBattxE, J.
'In March, 1906, F. O. Butt appeared before the grand jury of Pulaski County in obedience to a summons to testify. Among many questions propounded to him by that body he refused to answer the following:
“1. . Do you know where room 2x5 in the Fulk Building in the city of Little Rock is?
“2. Did you not, during the last session of the last Legislature, have a key similar to the one which I now show you, for the purpose of getting in and out of room 215, Fulk Building?
“16. Did you not use free transportation during the last term of the Legislature ?
“17. Have you during your term as senator…
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