In Re the Criminal Contempt Charge Against Caruba

This is an appeal from an order in the Court of Chancery adjudging Robert Caraba guilty of criminal contempt and committing him to the common jail of the County of Essex for sixty days. The facts are fully stated in the Chancery opinion which is reported in 139 N. J. Eq. 404.

Caruba committed perjury in swearing willfully and falsely regarding a fact which we find was material to the issue. He was obstinate in clinging to his deliberately false story and, brazenly and without penitence, he acknowledged the truth only when broken down and forced so to do by the persistent and relentless…