Middlebrook v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ op error, brought to this court to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County inflicting a fine and imprisonment upon the plaintiff in error for a contempt of court. The facts are recited in the judgment of the court below, which was as follows: In the matter of ) Court of Common Pleas.
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Writ op error, brought to this court to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County inflicting a fine and imprisonment upon the plaintiff in error for a contempt of court. The facts are recited in the judgment of the court below, which was as follows: In the matter of ) Court of Common Pleas. Elijah B. Middlebrook. ) Fairfield County, April term, 1872. Bo it remembered, that whereas Elijah B. Middlebrook, of the town of Bridgeport, in said county, did, on Wednesday, the 17ih day of April, A. D. 1872, at said Bridgeport, in the room of the said Court of Common Pleas,…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The plaintiff in error made a gross assault upon William K. Seeley, Esq., in open court, and immediately left the court-house and the state. After making reasonable efforts to procure his attendance in court, the Court of Common Pleas rendered a judgment, sentencing him to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs, and to be imprisoned in the common jail for thirty days, for a contempt of court. This writ of error is brought to reverse that judgment.
The questions involved in this case are mainly questions ot *267jurisdiction; therefore it must not be regarded as a precedent, inducing the belief…
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