Sellers v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Perry county. Hon. R. S. Hall, Judge. E. C. Sellers and another were tried and convicted for contempt of court, and they appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Cook, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of the court.
At the April, 1921, term of the circuit court of Perry county, the appellants were tried and convicted for a contempt of court, and from a judgment sentencing them to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to serve a term of thirty days in the county jail they prosecute this appeal.
This conviction was based on an information filed in said court by the district attorney, alleging that appellants, at a time when one Lewis Sellers was under bond to await the action of the grand jury on a charge of murder, attempted by threats and an offer to bribe to…
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