BART v. UNITED STATES

No. 11045.

203 F.2d 45 (1952)

BART v. UNITED STATES

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1952.

Petition for Rehearing Denied April 15, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Wright, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John D. Lane, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Charles M. Irelan, U. S. Atty., Joseph M. Howard, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., and Charles B. Murray, Asst. Atty. Gen., were on the brief, for appellee. George Morris Fay, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., when the record was filed, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, PROCTOR and BAZELON, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

Philip Bart was indicted in thirty-two counts for refusal to answer that number of questions asked him by a Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives. Before or during the trial the Government abandoned twenty-four of the counts. Bart was convicted upon the first eight counts of the indictment. From that conviction he appeals. The counts, and the questions involved in them, require somewhat different...

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