COMMONWEALTH v. RHINE


303 S.W.2d 301 (1957)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellant, v. Henry RHINE, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., Robert F. Matthews, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., A. Scott Hamilton, Louisville, for appellant.

Robert W. Zollinger, Louisville, for appellee.

Carl L. Wedekind, Jr., Louisville, for Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, Inc., amicus curiæ.


CAMMACK, Judge.

On October 23, 1956, during the course of a hearing before the Jefferson County grand jury, Henry Rhine was summoned and questioned concerning his association with Carl Braden. (In 1954 Braden had been convicted of the crime of sedition in the Criminal Branch of the Jefferson Circuit Court. His conviction was reversed by this Court on the ground that the Congress had intended to occupy exclusively the field of sedition against the United States, and...

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