Contempt v. Hughes
New Mexico Supreme Court
Proceeding for contempt. Respondent, Thomas Hughes, found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Bernalillo county jail for sixty days; Collier, J., concurring; Smith, C. J., in the result; and Bantz and Hamilton, JJ., dissenting from punishment inflicted, in separate opinions filed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLaughlin, J.
The respondent was attached upon an affidavit and information made by W. B. Childers, a member of a committee appointed by this court, to prepare and prosecute charges against Thomas B. Catron and Charles A. Spiess for alleged unprofessional conduct in the trial of the case of the territory of New Mexico against Francisco Gonzales y Borrego et ah, for the murder of Francisco Chavez, which was tried in the district court for the county of Santa Fe, in the month of May, 1895, Jacob H. Crist, the district attorney, represented the territory in the trial of that case. At the July, 1895, term of…
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