Brown v. Walker
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court, made upon the return of a writ of habeas corpus, remanding the petitioner Brown to the custody of the marshal, the respondent. in this case.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court, made upon the return of a writ of habeas corpus, remanding the petitioner Brown to the custody of the marshal, the respondent. in this case. It appeared that the petitioner had been subpoenaed as a witness before the grand jury, at a terra of thé District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, to testify in relation to a charge then under investigation by that body against certain officers and agents of the Allegheny Talley Railway…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case involves an alleged incompatibility between that clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which declares that no person “ shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,” and the act of Congress of February 11, 1893, c. 83, 27 Stat. 443, which enacts that “ no person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, tariffs, contracts, agreements and documents before the Interstate Commerce Commission, or in obedience to the subpoena of the Commission, . . . on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or…
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