Legal Opinion
Sinclair v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 8, 1929No. 555PublishedCited by 480 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
delivered .the opinion of the Court.
Appellant was found guilty of violating R. S.,' § 102; U. S. C., Tit. 2, § 192. He was sentenced to jail for three months and to pay a fine of $500. The case was taken to the Court of Appeals of the,District of Columbia; that court certified to this court certain questions of law upon which it desired instruction for the proper decision of the case. We directed the entire record to be sent up. Judicial Code, § 239, U. S. C., Tit. 28, § 346.
Section 102 follows: “ Every person who. having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of…
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