Withers v. State

The superior courts of this State, having been established by the constitution, possess the power to define and punish contempts. Where, in the exercise of such power, an attachment is issued by a superior court, defining as a contempt the failure and refusal of a person to be and appear at court to prosecute a criminal case and testify as a witness therein, after he had originally instituted the prosecution by swearing out a warrant against the defendant in the criminal case, the attachment alleges a state of facts sufficient to constitute contempt within the, power of the court to define;…