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UNITED STATES v. DEUTCH

No. 13060.

235 F.2d 853 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Bernhard DEUTCH, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Hitz, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., at the time brief was filed, Lewis Carroll and E. Tillman Stirling, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant. Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Mr. Henry W. Sawyer, III, Philadelphia, Pa., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. George Herbert Goodrich, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before DANAHER, BASTIAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

An indictment charged that Deutch "unlawfully refused to answer" five specific questions put to him by a Committee of Congress.

The District Court dismissed the indictment as insufficient because it did not charge that the defendant willfully refused. The trial court concluded that since the recent decision in Quinn v. United States, 1955, 349 U.S. 155, 75 S.Ct. 668, 99 L.Ed. 964, the word "willfully" was...

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