In Re Briggs

This is an appeal from a judgment for contempt from Moore, J., at February Term, 1904, Wilson Superior Court. In the case of State v. George Morgan, who was indicted for keeping a gaming house, (119) with a second count for playing cards for money in violation of chapter 29, Laws 1891, R. G. Briggs was sworn as a witness for the State. The solicitor asked the witness: 1. "Have you been in the defendant's room on the west side of Goldsboro street, in Wilson, N.C. within the last two years?" The witness stated that he declined to answer the question, on the ground that his answer might tend to…