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UNITED STATES v. HARRIS

No. 52.

311 U.S. 292 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. HARRIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gordon B. Tweedy argued the causes, and Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key, Joseph W. Burns, and Herbert Wechsler were on the briefs, for the United States.

No appearance for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court.

In a proceeding before a grand jury, appellees were asked whether, in 1937, they had made certain statements to government agents concerning earlier conversations with one Ray Born and others regarding the operation of places of ill repute. They denied having made the statements. The grand jury thereupon found the indictments1 now before us...

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