United States v. Dockery

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

This is a motion made by the defendant “for an order directing the issuance of interrogatories and cross-interrogatories of one Corp. Eugene C. Shara.”

The defendant claims that Shara is a Corporal in the United States Army stationed in Africa and that his testimony is essential to the defendant on trial in this indictment.

No statute has been cited which authorizes the Court to direct the issuance of interrogatories in a criminal case, and there are few reported decisions on this subject. See United States v. Hofmann, D.C., 24 F.Supp. 847. The Court in that case in a…