Duckworth v. District Court

— The sole question involved in this case is: Did the petitioner, Max Duckworth, by appearing before the grand jury of Woodbury county and testifying, waive his right to claim his privilege or immunity from testifying at the trial of the case in the district court, wherein the indictment of the defendant on trial was based in part upon the testimony of the petitioner given before the grand jury, on the ground that his answers to questions propounded to him would tend to incrimináte him and expose him to public ignominy? If by testifying before the grand jury he did thus waive his right to…