State v. Earl

—On the 18th of March, 1873, this court, on its own motion, entered a rule in.the above entitled cause, requiring the defendant to appear before the court on the 26th, and show cause, if any he could, why he should not be attached for an alleged contempt. The order recited a correspondence between our Chief Justice and the defendant, by which it appeared that the defendant had paid out large sums of money (and as it was intimated), for the purpose of unduly and corruptly influencing the action of the judges in a cause pending therein. The correspondence had been published, and the newspapers…