State v. Howell
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for an attachment for contempt of court in publishing newspaper articles tending to unduly interfere with the administration of justice and to prejudice the public and the jury as to the merits of a cause just before and during its trial, brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered against the accused, from which he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
Counsel for the defendant, in his brief, summarizes the various questions stated in the reasons of appeal as (1) questions relating to the admissibility of evidence ; (2) the question of the liability of the defendant to criminal punishment for contempt, in the absence of any criminal intent; (8) the question of the liability of any one for criminal contempt, when it does not appear that the alleged contemptuous publication in fact interfered in any way with the course of justice, or was known to the court, jury, witnesses, or any one concerned in the case or its trial, until called to the…
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