Alexander v. United States and Nine Other Titles

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

These are ten appeals from judgments and commitments in civil contempt, based upon refusals to answer questions put to appellants while witnesses in an investigation by a grand jury of the District Court for the Southern District of California. The refusals were based upon the claim that the answers would tend to incriminate them. A hearing was had before the district court for each appellant and the court ordered the questions answered. The refusals led to the judgments.

The questions asked may be briefly summarized as follows:

Appellants Bissey, Noble and Smith were asked…