Weston v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, J.
This is a summary proceeding for contempt instituted by rule against Ross Allen Weston, charging him with having publicly uttered certain “defamatory statements consisting of contemptuous and insulting language addressed to, or published of, a judge of the Circuit Court of Arlington county” with respect to his decision in a “proceeding had, or to be had, in said court.” The two judges of that court deemed it improper that they hear the case, and Hon. J. Hume Taylor, Judge of the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk, was designated for that purpose.
The defendant filed a demurrer…
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