Wilson v. Territory of Wyoming

By the Court,

Thomas, J.

This case was brought to this court upon a writ of error from the first district court, in which said court the plaintiff in error herein had been found guilty of a (constructive) contempt of court, and was sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, and to stand committed until the same was paid. It appears from the *156record in the case that the judge of said district court, on the eleventh day of April, 1878, at the city of Cheyenne, ordered an attachment to issue against the body of said Posey S. Wilson, for the purpose of bringing him before said court to show…