Townsend v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Whatever may have been the power of judges at common law to adjudge, as for a-contempt of court, any person fox an act done or writing published calculated to bring the court or the judge into contempt and lower his authority, the power of the judges in Georgia to punish for a criminal contempt of court is limited by law as provided in the Code, § 24-105, and extends “only to cases of misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of said courts, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, the misbehavior of any of the officers…