Case Name: In re HIRSCH
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1898-03-02
Citations: 87 F. 1005
Docket Number: No. 68
Parties: In re HIRSCH.
Judges: Before WALLACE and LACOMBE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 87
Pages: 1005–1005

Head Matter:
In re HIRSCH.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
March 2, 1898.)
No. 68.
Habeas Corpus — When Granted.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut.
This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Heyman J. Hirsch, deputy internal revenue collector, who was committed by a state court of Connecticut for a refusal to produce to such court, in obedience to a subpoena duces tecum, an original apiflication or return of a special taxpayer, to be used as evidence on the prosecution of such Taxpayer for sidling liquor in violation of the state laws. The writ was discharged by the circuit court on the hearing (74 Fed. 928), and the petitioner appeals.
Charles W. Comstock, U. S. Atty., for appellant. John L. Hunter, for appellee.
Before WALLACE and LACOMBE, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We concur in the opinion of the circuit judge dismissing the writ of habeas corpus, and therefore affirm the order appealed from. We do not, however, intend to decide that the writ of habeas corpus is the proper remedy to secure a review' of the judgment of the state court in punishing a wtitness for disobedience of its process of subpoena ad testificandum. See Ex parte Parks, 93 U. S. 18; In re Wood, 140 U. S. 278, 11 Sup. Ct. 738; In re Frederich, 149 U. S. 70, 13 Sup. Ct. 793; In re Tyler, 149 U. S. 180, 13 Sup. Ct. 785; Ex parte Crouch, 112 U. S. 178, 5 Sup. Ct. 96.