State v. Galloway
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MEMPHIS. At the January Term, 1868, of the Criminal Court for Memphis, Judge William HuNter, presiding, a judgment was rendered against Calloway & Rhea, for an alleged contempt of the Court, which is brought to this Court by writ in error; and also by writ of error from the judgment of the Municipal Court of Memphis, Judge George W. WaldeN, presiding, dismissing for want of jurisdiction, the writ of habeas corpus sued out in that Court by the defendant, to be discharged…
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FROM MEMPHIS. At the January Term, 1868, of the Criminal Court for Memphis, Judge William HuNter, presiding, a judgment was rendered against Calloway & Rhea, for an alleged contempt of the Court, which is brought to this Court by writ in error; and also by writ of error from the judgment of the Municipal Court of Memphis, Judge George W. WaldeN, presiding, dismissing for want of jurisdiction, the writ of habeas corpus sued out in that Court by the defendant, to be discharged from imprisonment, on the ground that the original judgment was void, and the imprisonment under it illegal.
1Opinion of the CourtHenry G. Smith, J.
The Criminal Court of Memphis, pronounced judgment of fine and imprisonment, upon the charge of contempt, against M. C. Galloway & W. H. Rhea, the editors and publishers of the newspaper 'published at Memphis, called the Memphis Avalanche. The alleged contempt, upon which the judgment was rendered, was an editorial article published in the newspaper, purporting to give the particulars, and denouncing the ■ Judge of the Court as guilty of official corruption, in .discharging upon bail, a prisoner under indictment in that Court, for a felony. The publication was made a day or two after the…
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