In Re Dewar

The petitioner was convicted of intoxication before a justice of the peace. Thereupon, he was duly sworn and required to disclose the person of whom he obtained the liquor which produced such intoxication. He refused to do so on the ground that it would tend to criminate him. He was adjudged to be in contempt, and was committed to jail. He then brought these habeas corpus proceedings, which were duly adjourned into this Court agreeably to the provisions of G-. L. 2221. The importance of the question here submitted for our determination is obvious. On the one hand, a nullification of No. 203,…