In Re Meckley

JONES, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal, upon allowance by the court below, from a judgment of contempt entered therein under the following circumstances.

On May 7, 1943, the grand jurors for the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, sitting in Harrisburg, impanelled for the investigation of certain frauds alleged to have been committed against the United States in violation of law, made a presentment to the presiding District Judge wherein they represented under oath that I. Walter Meckley (the appellant) as a witness before the grand jury had given…