WYMAN v. DEGREGORY

No. 4466.

100 N.H. 163 (1956)

LOUIS C. WYMAN, Attorney General v. HUGO DEGREGORY.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided March 29, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General (by brief and orally), pro se.

James C. Cleveland (by brief and orally), specially for DeGregory.


LAMPRON, J.

Article 15, Part I, of the Constitution of New Hampshire provides that "no subject shall . . . be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself." This provision, commonly called the privilege against self-incrimination, is similar in nature to the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which provides that "no person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Like the latter it applies to...

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