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" 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 a prosecution for perjury committed in giving such testimony. "
The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Their Application to the ... - Page 927
by Frank Sumner Rice - 1892 - 1456 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 445

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1979 - 996 pages
...that provided that "[n]o testimony given by a witness before . . . any committee of either House . . . shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding...prosecution for perjury committed in giving such testimony," did not bar the use at respondent's trial for willful default of the testimony given by her before...
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The National Almanac and Annual Record

Almanacs, American - 1863 - 734 pages
...Witnesses before Committee* of either House of Congress. The testimony of any euch witness ehalt not be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court of justice, but no official paper or record prodnced by him shall be included within this privilege...
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Testimony Before the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate the Administration of the Collection of Internal Revenue in the Sixth District of North Carolina - Internal revenue - 1882 - 612 pages
...may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous. It refers to section 859, which reads : No testimony given by a witness before either house,...committed in giving such testimony. But an official paper of record produced by him is not within the privilege. The CHAIRMAN. Suppose we reserve the question....
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1883 - 850 pages
...him, or otherwise render him infamous. Section 859 reads : No testimony given by awituessbeforeeither House, or before any committee of either House of...perjury committed in giving such testimony, but an otlicial paper of record produced by him is not within the privilege. Mr. PEARSON. You can get a true...
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

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,...produced by him is not within the said privilege." These sections were derived from an act of January 24, 1857, entitled " An act more effectually to...
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Constitution of the United States of America with the Amendments Thereto ...

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...produced by him is not within the said privilege. FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS IN THE SENATE. The Presiding Officer, for the time...
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Handbook of Republican Institutions in the United States of America: Based ...

Dugald J. Bannatyne - New York (State) - 1887 - 652 pages
...admiralty. No testimony given before either House, or before any committee of either House of Congress, is used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against...official paper or record produced by him is not within 182 THE JUDICIARY OF THE UNITED STATES. this privilege. No pleading of a party, nor any discovery or...
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Senate Manual: Embracing the Standing Rules and Orders of the Senate, the ...

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...produced by him is not within the said privilege. FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS IN THE SENATE. The Presiding Officer, for the time...
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Standing Rules for Conducting Business in the Senate of the United States ...

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...prosecution for perjury committed in giving such testimony. Bui an official paper or record produced by him is not within the said privilege. FURTHER PROVISION...
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A Treatise on Federal Practice in Civil Causes: With Special ..., Volume 1

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,...any committee of either House of Congress, shall be K 20 St. at L. 30 (1 US Supp. 312). ยป In re Pacific Railway Commission, 2s United States c. Hollis,...
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