Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 13, 1964No. [No. 30, September Term, 1963.]PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrune, C. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County finding the appellant, James Dawson Brown, guilty of contempt by reason of his refusal to obey an order of that court to answer before the Grand Jury for Anne Arundel County certain questions which had been propounded to him before that body, and fining him $500.00 and sentencing him to jail until he should purge himself of contempt by answering the questions. He was released on bail pending this appeal.
The questions which the appellant refused to answer were propounded to him in the course of a grand jury…
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