Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution... United States Congressional Serial Set - Page 871953Full view - About this book
| William Edward Miller - Courts - 1881 - 728 pages
...859. Testimony of witnesses before congress not admissible against them in criminal prosecutions. — No testimony given by a witness before either house, or before any committee of either house of congress, shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court except in... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 798 pages
...shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for their action." Opinion of the Court. " SEC. 859. No testimony given by a witness before either House, or before any committee of either House of Congress, shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court, except... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Rules Committee - 1886 - 504 pages
...Columbia, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for their action. SEC. 859. No testimony given by a witness before either house or before any committee of either house of Congress shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court, except in... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1890 - 542 pages
...Columbia, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for their action. SEC. 859. No testimony given by a witness before either house or before any committee of either house of Congress shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court, except in... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1890 - 90 pages
...Columbia, whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for their action. SEC. 859. No testimony given by a witness before either house or before any committee of either house of Congress shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court, except in... | |
| Roger Foster - Courts - 1892 - 812 pages
...State, against which Congress can afford no immunity."26 The Revised Statutes further provide that : " No testimony given by a witness before either House, or before any committee of either House of Congress, shall be K 20 St. at L. 30 (1 US Supp. 312). » In re Pacific Railway Commission, 2s United... | |
| Frank Sumner Rice - Civil procedure - 1892 - 832 pages
...Sup. Rev. Stats. 312. § 859. TESTIMONY BEFOEE CONGRESS NOT ADMISSIBLE IN CRIMINAL PKOSECUTIONS. — No testimony given by a witness before either House, or before any committee of either House of Congress, shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court, except... | |
| United States - 1893 - 1256 pages
...disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous. Section 859 of the Revised Statutes is as follows : No testimony given by a witness before either House or before any committee of cither House of Congress shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceedings against him in any court,... | |
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