State v. McClaugherty

SNYDER, President:

On .December 18, 1888, the attention of the Circuit Court of Mercer county, then in session, was called to an article published in the Wheeling Intelligencer, over the signature of D. W. McOlaugherty, a member of the bar of said court; and the said McOlaugherty then present, admitted in court, that he was the author of said article, and declining to disclaim that it was his purpose in writing said article to reflect upon the court, the court thereupon awarded a rule against *252him to appear before it on December 19, 1888, to answer for his contempt and show canse, why he should…