Legal Opinion
In Re Williams
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 10, 1932No. Docket No. 2264PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, J., pro tem.
Certain persons defendant were in the municipal court having their preliminary examination under charges of violation of section 337a of the Penal Code and conspiracy to violate such section. Petitioner was called and sworn as a witness, and upon certain questions being put to him he refused to answer them on the ground that the answers might tend to criminate him, article I, section 13, of the California Constitution providing that “no person shall be . . . compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself”. Upon this refusal petitioner was adjudged in…
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