Scott & Light v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HAMILTON. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of Hamilton County. Floyd Estill,, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
The defendants were tried in the court below upon a charge of contempt of court. The charge, in substance,. was that one Charley Johnson had been subpoenaed by the State to appear and give his testimony before the grand jury in the case of the State against Ed Royston, who had been bound over on a charge of forgery; that the defendants, knowing the said Charley Johnson had been so subpoenaed, decoyed him out of the State of Tennessee, and into the State of Alabama, with the purpose of preventing his appearing as a witness in the said case.
The defense made was that the said Charley Johnson had…
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