Globe Newspaper Co. v. Commonwealth

This is a writ of error to the Superior Court, to correct alleged errors in the proceedings whereby the plaintiff in error was found guilty of a contempt of court in publishing in its newspaper two articles relative to a prosecution for murder, upon an indictment then pending against one Charles L. Tucker.

The first question is whether a writ of error lies in such a case. This question was considered and decided affirmatively in the ease of Hurley v. Commonwealth, ante, 443.

The first assignment of errors is that the publication did not constitute contempt, in that “ said articles were…