Ex parte Earman

(After stating the facts.)

On this writ of hateas corpus the real question presented is whether the Circuit Judge had authority to commit the petitioner here, to imprisonment for contempt upon findings made upon allegations that the petitioner wrote a letter to the judge and published it to others and made statements about the judge as set forth in the statement filed with this opinion.

Under the statute quoted in the statement, if “the cause of detention shall appear to have been a contempt, plainly and specifically charged in the commitment by some court, officer or body having authority to…