Field v. Thornell
Supreme Court of Iowa
Certiorari to Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District of Iowa. On June 8, 1896, the county attorney filed an information accusing the petitioner of contempt of court, in that he published in the Mills Gounty Tribune a false and scurrilous article concerning the trial of the State of Iowa against William De Ford, entitled “A Put-Up Job,” and willfully and corruptly, and with the malicious intent of influencing the jury in said cause, and thereby…
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Certiorari to Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District of Iowa. On June 8, 1896, the county attorney filed an information accusing the petitioner of contempt of court, in that he published in the Mills Gounty Tribune a false and scurrilous article concerning the trial of the State of Iowa against William De Ford, entitled “A Put-Up Job,” and willfully and corruptly, and with the malicious intent of influencing the jury in said cause, and thereby preventing the decent and orderly administration of justice, handed a copy of said paper to each of two jurors in said cause.…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
*91 *8The case of the state against William De Ford, accused of the crime of incest, was on trial in the district court of Mills county. Nearly all the evidence had been introduced, and the court had adjourned until the following *9morning.. Two of tlie jurors, William Van Doren and James Galbraith, went to the petitioner’s place of business; and he handed each of them a copy of the Mills Oounty Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation in that community, and of which he was publisher. Galbraith was a subscriber, but Van Doren was not. This paper contained an article headed “A Put-Dp-Job,”…
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