Harry Widger v. United States

244 F.2d 103

Harry WIDGER, Appellant,

v.

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

No. 16201.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 9, 1957.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1957.

F. Irvin Dymond, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

E. E. Talbot, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

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Appellant, Harry Widger, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for refusal to answer questions asked him in a criminal prosecution.1 The sentence was to begin at the termination of a sentence…