Ex Parte Morriss

LATTIMORE, Judge.

For conduct occurring in the presence of the court below, in the trial of a criminal case on September 28, 1926, which conduct is set out at length in the order and judgment made and entered herein, this applicant was held in contempt and ordered to pay a fine of ten dollars; until this was done he was committed to the custody of the sheriff. On the same day and under oath applicant did enter his disclaimer of any contemptuous purpose, or that his effort to get before the jury testimony theretofore held by the court inadmissible, was a wilful defiance or disobedience to the…