UNITED STATES v. MURDOCK

No. 88.

290 U.S. 389 (1933)

UNITED STATES v. MURDOCK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Biggs, with whom Messrs. Sewall Key and John H. McEvers were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Harold J. Bandy, with whom Mr. Edmund Burke was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is here for the second time.

The respondent was indicted for refusal to give testimony and supply information as to deductions claimed in his 1927 and 1928 income tax returns for moneys paid to others. By a special plea he averred that he ought not to be prosecuted under the indictment, because if he had answered the questions put to him he would have...

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