Legal Opinion

State v. Davis

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided November 16, 1901PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Pleasants County. Miles Davis and others were found guilty of contempt, and bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

DbNT, Judge:

Miles Davis, J. J. Mahoney and Harry Cheeny complain of the judgment of the circuit court of Pleasants County rendered on the 21st day of December, 1899, adjudging them guilty of contempt of such court in violating an injunction thereof prohibiting them from selling intoxicating liquors at a certain house in St. Marys and sentencing them to six months’ imprisonment therefor. ,

The defendants insist that the evidence is wholly insufficient to justify the finding of the court. A careful examination of the evidence, which is too voluminous to set out at length, fully sustains their…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. CunninghamWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1890
  2. State v. RalphsnyderWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1890

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
  2. Hendershot v. HendershotWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980
  3. State ex rel. Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co. v. ClancyMontana Supreme Court · 1904
  4. Ex Parte OwensCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1927
  5. State Ex Rel. Continental Coal Co. v. BittnerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1926

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