In re Gorham
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Tbis was a proceeding to punish as for contempt. Tbe acts were alleged to have been committed by the respondents during the trial of the civil action of B. F. Long, administrator, against the North Carolina Bailroad and others,’in Iredell Superior Court, at its May Term, 1901, .and upon the answers of the respondents and the affidavits filed in the matter, his Honor, Judge George IT.
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Tbis was a proceeding to punish as for contempt. Tbe acts were alleged to have been committed by the respondents during the trial of the civil action of B. F. Long, administrator, against the North Carolina Bailroad and others,’in Iredell Superior Court, at its May Term, 1901, .and upon the answers of the respondents and the affidavits filed in the matter, his Honor, Judge George IT. Brown, found the following facts: “1. That after the jury were empaneled in said action, the Court instructed them, in addition to the usual instruction, that it was their duty to report to the Court tbe name of…
1Opinion of the Court
MONTGOMERY,. J.
This proceeding in the Court below, as the record discloses, had for its object the punishment of the respondents as for contempt of Court, and the judgment was pronounced against them as for contempt. But the argument for the State here was also directed to the proposition that the judgment could be supported on the ground that the facts constituted a case of contempt of Court. In support of this proposition, numerous authorities were 'referred to, but in none of'those jurisdictions were the statutory laws like those of our State on this subject. One of them, however, People…
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