Cobb v. State

(After stating the. foregoing facts.) Mr. Cobb filed no defense to the rule and introduced no evidence explaining or justifying his conduct. He pitched his defense entirely on his plea in bar and to the jurisdiction of Judge Woodrum to hear the contempt proceeding. The two questions to be decided are: (1) whether Judge Woodrum was qualified to hear the contempt case, and (2) whether the criticism of Judge Woodrum was contempt in view of his disqualification in the Cobb murder case, and in view of the illegality of his order restraining the sheriff of Screven County from carrying Mr. Cobb…