State v. Shumaker

DISSENTING OPINION.

[Filed August 5, 1927.] I was not a member of the court at the time this action was begun, nor at the time of the publication of the article which the Attorney-General, in his amended information, has alleged to be contemptuous. For this reason I preferred not to participate in the decision of this case, but, at the request of my colleagues, and on their suggestion that by reason of the fact that I was not a member of the court at those times and did not participate in the decisions of the court that were criticized by the respondent, I would be in position to consider the…