In re the Application to Punish Leach

Clarke, P. J.:

The respondent, a deputy commissioner of police, was served with a subpoena duces tecum requiring him to produce certain books, papers, documents, etc., before the joint legislative committee appointed by the Legislature under a joint resolution passed on the 13th and 15th days of April, 1921. He appeared and produced the books and papers before the chairman of the said joint committee purporting to sit as a subcommittee of one but declined to be sworn and examined in private before a committee of one. He was subsequently declared in contempt at a session of the joint committee,…