UNITED STATES v. ROSEN

No. 209, Docket 21293.

174 F.2d 187 (1949)

UNITED STATES v. ROSEN.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

April 25, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emanuel H. Bloch, of New York City, for appellant.

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Thomas F. Murphy, Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, and Thomas J. Donegan and Fred E. Strine, Special Assts. to the Atty. Gen. of counsel), for appellee.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CHASE and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was adjudged in contempt of court for refusing to obey an order of the court directing him to answer certain questions he had been asked when he appeared as a witness before a grand jury duly summoned and sitting in the Southern District of New York on March 2 and 3, 1949. He was sentenced to imprisonment for six months or until such time as he purged himself by answering the questions.

There were eleven questions which...

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