People v. Bertini

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• only issue “whether the legality and propriety of questions put to defendant as a Grand Jury witness was a question of fact to be submitted as such in the court’s charge to the jury”
• “To be guilty of contempt the witness need not flatly refuse to answer the questions put to him; false and evasive profession of an inability to recall, which amounts to no answer at all, is punishable as a criminal contempt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).