Supreme Court of the United States May 25, 1931, 720 (Fetters v. United States Ex Rel. Cunningham)

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Mr. Justice Sutherland

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On April 20, 1928, an indictment was returned by a grand jury in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, charging the respondent Cunningham with a violation of § 102, R. S.,

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(U. S. C., Title 2, § 192), in having refused to answer pertinent questions put to him by a committee of the United States Senate.