Carter v. State of Georgia

Evans, Judge.

At the conclusion of a trial of three joint defendants in Cook Superior Court, Judge H. W. Lott pronounced a sentence of contempt of court against defense attorney Jack W. Carter, and on the following day placed the judgment in writing as follows: "Whereas during the trial of a case in Cook Superior Court on February 13, 1973, Jack Carter, one of the attorneys in the case refused to obey the orders of the court during the trial of the case and refused to respect the right of the District Attorney to even ask a witness a question without interruption until he had finished the…