Ketcham v. Manning, Judge

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clarke

Granting writ of prohibition.

On the 7th day of March, 1924, and during a regular session of the Laurel circuit court, L. M. Ketcham, a bystander, was called before the judge of the court and sworn to testify concerning violations of the law in the county of which he might have knowledge. Declining to answer a question thus propounded to him he was adjudged guiity of contempt and his punishment fixed, at 30 hours’ confinement in jail, which is the limit of imprisonment that may be imposed for contempt without the intervention of a jury. Section 1291,…