Chapman v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Chapman was indicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for an alleged violation of section 102 of the Revised Statutes, in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him by a special committee of the Senate of the United States, appointed to investigate charges in connection with proposed legislation then pending in the Senate.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Chapman was indicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for an alleged violation of section 102 of the Revised Statutes, in refusing to answer certain questions propounded to him by a special committee of the Senate of the United States, appointed to investigate charges in connection with proposed legislation then pending in the Senate. To this indictment the defendant demurred on the ground, among others, that section 102 of the Revised Statutes was unconstitutional, and that,, therefore, the court was without…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The appellate jurisdiction of. this court rests on the acts of Congress, and the question is whether we have jurisdiction to review on writ of. error a judgment of the’ Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in a criminal case under section 8 of the act of February 9, 1893, c. 74, establishing that court. 27 Stat. 434. And the proper construction of that section is to be arrived at in the light of .previous decisions in respect of similar statutory provisions conferring appellate jurisdiction.
Section 8 of the act of February 27,1801, c. 16, entitled “An act concerning the District of…
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