Lloyd Barenblatt v. United States

BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried, convicted and sentenced under 2 U.S.C.A. § 192 1 (contempt of Congress). From this conviction the present appeal was taken.

The factual situation disclosed by the record is as follows: On June 28, 1954, one Francis X. T. Crowley testified before a subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives concerning his past membership and activities in the Communist Party, and identified the appellant as a member of the Haldane Club of the Communist Party while appellant was a graduate student and instructor at the…