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WIDGER v. UNITED STATES

No. 16201.

244 F.2d 103 (1957)

Harry WIDGER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Irvin Dymond, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

E. E. Talbot, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and CAMERON and JONES, Circuit Judges.

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Harry Widger, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for refusal to answer questions asked him in a criminal prosecution.1 The sentence was to begin at the termination of a sentence of life imprisonment for murder appellant was already serving in the Louisiana Penitentiary.

Appellant had plead guilty to murdering one Henry Stern in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 16, 1950. He was called by the government...

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