In Re Kelly

These matters come before me on writs of habeas corpus which I allowed to each case. Each petitioner was arrested and committed to jail by virtue of warrants issued on the complaint of the chairman of a committee of the New Jersey House of Assembly. Each complaint on which the said warrants issued sets forth that the petitioner was "brought before a special committee of the House of Assembly of the State of New Jersey appointed under assembly resolution I of the sessions of 1938 upon warrant issued for that purpose by the speaker of said house, did after being duly sworn refuse to answer…