Rushing v. Tennessee Crime Commission

The complainants Walter Bushing and Henry Light were summoned to testify before the Tennessee Crime Commission created by Chapter 13, Public Acts Third Extra Session, 1937. They challenged the authority of the Commission to subpoena them upon the ground that the Act is void and filed the bill seeking to have it declared unconstitutional. The chancellor sustained defendants’ demurrer and dismissed the bill. Appeal was prayed and the cause is here to review the decree of the chancellor upon assignments of error through wfiich it is insisted that the Act contravenes provisions of the…