United States v. Noble

KNIGHT, District Judge.

On August 6, 1935, defendants herein, Samuel L. Samschick, Joseph Mandl, and Joseph Girard, were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiring, with oth.ers, to defraud the United States of a tax due on denatured alcohol withdrawn under permit. The defendants above named have entered separate pleas in bar in each of which it is in substance alleged that he was “involuntarily and compulsorily and against his will” compelled to give testimony in an investigation by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the United States concerning the tax liability of…