Burneson v. United States

On information filed in the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, plaintiff in error was charged with contempt of court in willfully and corruptly endeavoring to influence a prospective juror in a criminal cause then pending in court. Prom a conviction thereon she has prosecuted error, upon the ground that the evidence did not warrant a conviction, under which it is subsidiarily argued that the trial court erroneously acted upon incompetent evidence received at the hearing, and similarly considered facts referred to as “the sequence of events,” not offered in…