Ex parte Beville
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. This is a case of Original Jurisdiction. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1DissentWhitfield, C. J.
The petitioner was adjudged guilty of contempt of court by the Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida for refusing to obey an order of the court to in effect testify against her husband by testifying for the State before the grand jury of Sumter county in a proceeding wherein her husband was accused of a crime not affecting her personally. On habeas corpus she contends that the judgment and commitment are totally illegal because it is her lawful right to refuse to testify criminating her husband in a judicial proceeding.
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2Cases cited34 opinions
- Ex Parte FISKSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Ex parte SeniorSupreme Court of Florida · 1896
- New York Ex Rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. New York State Board of Tax CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Bassett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Ex parte KnightSupreme Court of Florida · 1906
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