State v. Kaiser
Oregon Supreme Court
Jackson county: L. R. Webster, Judge. Defendant appeals. Said, circuit court, at a term thereof held on the 18th day of December, 1889, proceeded of its own motion to make and enter the following order: “In the circuit court for Jackson county, Oregon.
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Jackson county: L. R. Webster, Judge. Defendant appeals. Said, circuit court, at a term thereof held on the 18th day of December, 1889, proceeded of its own motion to make and enter the following order: “In the circuit court for Jackson county, Oregon. “Whereas you, E. J. Kaiser and N. A. Jacobs, as editors and publishers of the Valley Record, a newspaper published at the city of Ashland, Jackson county, Oregon, on Thursday, the 12th of December, 1889, in an issue of said Valley Record published on said day, did publish of and concerning the above court, and the judge and officer thereof, the…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, C. J.
— Two questions are presented for our consideration upon this appeal: First, whether the matter published by the appellant was punishable as a contempt of the circuit court; second, whether said court had authority of its own motion to cite the appellant to appear before it and inflict punishment upon him for the alleged offense.
The Civil Code of this state, section 650, prescribes what *54acts and omissions in respect to a court of justice or proceedings therein, shall he deemed to be contempts of the authority of the court. They are as follows: Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior…
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