Montgomery v. State

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Appellant was charged by information filed in the court below with having committed an indirect contempt of its authority by an attempt to take from it and its officials certain documentary evidence alleged to be relevant and material in certain criminal charges then under investigation by that court and the grand jury acting with it. A rule was served on appellant to appear and show cause why he should not be attached and punished for the alleged contempt. He appeared in response to this rule and filed an answer which the court deemed insufficient to purge appellant of the contempt charged…