In re Brown
Wyoming Supreme Court
Prosecution of Melville 0. Erown, an attorney and counselor at law, for applying to the supreme court vile, opprobrious, and Indecent epithets, and for accusing one of the justices of being bribed.
1Opinion of the CourtLacey, C. J.
This is an accusation against Melville C. Brown, an attorney and counselor at law of this court, prosecuted by direction of the court under the act of December 9, 1869. Comp. Laws, 16. The accusation avers inter alia that the respondent, in the presence of divers witnesses, in the city of Cheyenne, in this territory, uttered of and concerning this court, and its decision of a certain cause, the following language: “It is a son of a bitch of a court, — one bribed and the other I don’t know what.” It is further alleged that said words were so spoken with intent to scandalize, traduce, and bring…
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