Hale v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson county. The plaintiff in error seeks a reversal of the judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the common pleas court of Jackson county, finding him guilty upon an information for contempt of court, and adjudging him to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson county. The plaintiff in error seeks a reversal of the judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the common pleas court of Jackson county, finding him guilty upon an information for contempt of court, and adjudging him to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution. The information charged, in substance, that on the 28th of November, 1893 a witness named was under subpoena to appear before said court at its session on December 1, 1893, to testify upon the trial of an indictment charging Hale with a felony; that the accused…
1Opinion of the CourtShauck, J.
The case submitted to us concedes that the evidence produced in the court of common pleas established the allegations of the information. The question of law presented by the record herd is whether that court erred in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment, which challenged the sufficiency of the information and the jurisdiction of the court to try the accused summarily.
We do not understand counsel for the plaintiff in error to deny either that the act charged was a contempt at common law or that the court may punish *212summarily any act which, under the statute, is a contempt of court.
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