People, Ex Rel. v. . Court of Oyer and Term
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the General Term in the first department of May, 1885, reversing an order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of New York county, punishing the relator for a criminal contempt. The facts appear in the report of the case at General Term, in 3 N. Y. Orim. Rep. 208.
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The occasion and results of proceedings for contempt, furnish a clear and well-defined line of division separating them into two classes, which have become somewhat mingled and confused by the use of a fixed but ambiguous nomenclature. In re Watson, 4 Bans. 470. There may prove to be rare and exceptional cases which do not easily fall within either class, or some which so commingle the characteristics of both as to make their location doubtful and difficult; but in the main, the division is exhaustive and clear. In one class are grouped cases whose occasion is an injury or wrong done to a…
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