Court Opinion

ID: 8853757
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 17:23:03.189093+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:05:35.450231
License: Public Domain

ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
I entirely concur in the views expressed by Judge BUFFINGTON in the foregoing opinion. That opinion is so full and satisfactory that I need do little more than announce my concurrence. The act of February 11, 1893, affords the witness complete immunity from prosecution, and from penalty or forfeiture for or on account of the offense to which the questions propounded to him relate, and therefore his answers cannot tend to criminate him. As he cannot be subjected to any prosecution, penalty, or forfeiture, his case is not within either the letter or the spirit of the fifth amendment to the constitution of the United States.