Case Name: Frederick G. DIEHL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1959-01-15
Citations: 265 F.2d 344
Docket Number: No. 14690
Parties: Frederick G. DIEHL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 265
Pages: 344–345

Head Matter:
Frederick G. DIEHL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 14690.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued Dec. 16, 1958.
Decided Jan. 15, 1959.
Mr. William R. Leekemby, Jr., Washington, D. C. (appointed by this Court), with whom Mr. Edgar A. Wren, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. Charles W. Halleck, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., and Mr. Carl W. Belcher, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appel-lee.
Before Prettyman, Chief Judge, and Washington and Bastían, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted for the crime of housebreaking. The complaining witness was a military attache of a foreign embassy, and another witness was a domestic servant in his household. Appellant says that they were not competent witnesses, because they were not liable to punishment for perjury under their diplomatic immunity. We think the point is not well taken. These witnesses took the oath, and moreover the diplomatic immunity from punishment for perjury can be waived by superior diplomatic officials.
Affirmed.
. 6 Wigmore, Evidence § 1831, 1832 (3d ed. 1940); 4 Hackworth, International Law 547 (1942); Respublica v. De Longchamps, 1784, 1 Dall. 111, 1 U.S. 111, 1 L.Ed. 59.