...give them in a criminal case. It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional provision onn only be that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal prosecation against himself. It would doubtless cover such cases, bnt it is not limited to them. The...

...leading case of Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 US 517, 562, 12 Sup. Ct. 195, 198 (35 L. Ed. 1110) said: "It is Impossible that the meaning of the constitutional...insure that a person should not be compelled, when actlug as a witness In any Investigation, to give testimony which might tend to show that he had himself...

...United States, and construed this constitutional provision as meaning, not only that a person should not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal proceeding, but that its object was to insure a person from being compelled to give testimony as a...

...the grand jury was a criminal case. Ib. 15. The meaning of the constitutional provision is not merely that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness...himself in a criminal prosecution against himself; but its object is to insure that a person shall not be compelled, when acting as a witness in any investigation,...

...before the grand jury was a criminal case. The meaning of the constitutional provision is not merely that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness...himself 'in a criminal prosecution against himself; but its object is to insure that a person shall no', be compelled, when acting as a witness in any...

...therefore, would be testimony against himself, and he would be compelled to give them in a criminal case. " It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional...; but it is not limited to them. The object was to insnre that a person should not be compelled, when acting as a witness in any investigation, to give...

...that " It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional prog 7.] Criminating Questions. vision can only be, that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a prosecution against himself. It would doubtless cover such cases; but it is not limited to them. The...

...therefore, would be testimony against himself, and he would be compelled to give them in a criminal case. It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional...compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal proceeding against himself. It would doubtless cover such cases, but it is not limited to them. The...

...follows." People ex rel. Burby v. Howlond (1898) 155 NY 270, 41 LRA 838, 49 NE 775Discussing the provision that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself, Judge Denio, in People ex rel. Hackley v. Kelly (1861) 24 NY 74, makes an important observation...

...of testimony of a self-criminating character from a witness ; and that it means not merely that one shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a prosecution against himself, but that he shall not bo compelled in any investigation to give evidence...