PEOPLE v. DE FEO


308 N.Y. 595 (1955)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John De Feo, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 9, 1955


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris B. Steinberg, Jesse Climenko, Martin I. Shelton and Richard A. Green for appellant.

Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (Richard G. Denzer and Leonard E. Reisman of counsel), for respondent.

CONWAY, Ch. J., DESMOND, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE, JJ., concur.


DYE, J.

The defendant stands convicted of criminal contempt of court following a trial in the Court of General Sessions of the County of New York for having willfully refused to answer questions put to him by the Fourth Grand Jury, November, 1953, Term, New York County (Judiciary Law, § 750, subd. A, par. 5; Matter of Finkel v. McCook, 247 App. Div. 57, affd. 271 N.Y. 636).

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