Ricketts v. State

Plaintiff in error, upon petition of the district attorney charging him with contempt of court, was attached, tried, and convicted, and adjudged to pay a fine of $50 and undergo confinement in the county jail for a term of ten days, from which judgment he has prosecuted an appeal in the nature of a writ of error to this court, and assigns error.

The conduct of plaintiff in. error alleged in the petition as constituting the contempt of which he was found guilty consists of his action in procuring a witness for the State in a prosecution against him in said court for tippling to falsely testify…