Counselman v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. On the 21st of November, 1890, while the grand jury in attendance upon the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois was engaged in investigating and inquiring into certain alleged violations, in that district, of an act of Congress entitled “ An act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, c. 104; 24 Stat. 379, and the 'amendments thereto,…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. On the 21st of November, 1890, while the grand jury in attendance upon the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois was engaged in investigating and inquiring into certain alleged violations, in that district, of an act of Congress entitled “ An act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887, c. 104; 24 Stat. 379, and the 'amendments thereto, approved March 2, 1889, c. 382, 25 Stat. 855, by the officers and agents of the Chicago,- Rock Island and Pacific Railway…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
In the opinion of the Circuit Court, it was held that, under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which declares that “ no person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,” a person cannot be compelled to discióse facts before a court or grand jury which might subject him to a criminal prosecution, or his property to forfeiture ; that, under the Interstate Commerce Law, it is made a criminal offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any officer or agent of a railroad company to grant any shippers of merchandise from one State to another, and…
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