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CHRISTOFFEL v. UNITED STATES

No. 10568.

200 F.2d 734 (1952)

CHRISTOFFEL v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1952.

Rehearing Denied November 28, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. O. John Rogge, Washington, D. C., attorney for appellant at the time of argument, for appellant. Mr. David Rein, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant. Mr. Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., entered an appearance for appellant subsequent to the argument.

Mr. John S. Pratt, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty. at the time of argument, and James W. Knapp, Attorney, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Joseph M. Howard, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellee. Messrs. Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., and Joseph A. Lowther, Attorney, Department of Justice, entered appearances for appellee subsequent to the argument.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, BAZELON and FAHY, Circuit Judges.

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict that appellant had committed perjury in testifying before the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives on March 1, 1947. The indictment charged he had denied that he was or had been a member of the Communist Party. An earlier conviction under the same indictment had been affirmed by this court, 1948, 84 U.S.App. D.C. 132, 171 F.2d 1004...

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