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BALLANTYNE v. UNITED STATES

No. 15822.

237 F.2d 657 (1956)

Ray C. BALLANTYNE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 10, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis W. Graves, Jr., James R. Cornish, Joseph W. Cash, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

Malcolm R. Wilkey, U. S. Atty., James T. Dowd, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from two judgments of conviction for contempt of court, upon each of which the appellant received a sentence of six months imprisonment. The second sentence was to run concurrently with the first. Each conviction was for the appellant's refusal to obey an order or orders of the court requiring him to answer certain questions propounded to him as a witness before the grand jury, notwithstanding...

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