Legal Opinion
Warring v. Colpoys
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 29, 1941No. 7921PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VINSON, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from the District Court’s discharge of a writ of habeas corpus. The litigation grows out of the same earlier proceedings ^as did the case of Warring v. Huff, 1 also decided today.
Appellant was sentenced on February 24, 1939, upon pleas of guilty, to four criminal contempt charges. The first charge stated that appellant had used money to influence a prospective juror. The second charge stated that appellant had investigated the •possibility of influencing another prospective juror. Admittedly, and as shown by the rule to show cause, these acts…
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