State ex rel. Fischer v. District Court

The relator was convicted of a criminal contempt, not committed in the presence of the court, by the judgment of the district court of Hennepin county, and committed to jail for AO days. The alleged act constituting the contempt was approaching and attempting to influence a juror in reference to his verdict in a cause then on trial. The case comes here on certiorari, and two errors are assigned:

1. That the affidavit which is the basis of the contempt proceedings is defective in substance, in that the facts stated, if true, do not constitute, in law, a contempt of court, for the reason that it…