Ex parte Biggers

Whitfield, J.,

(after stating the facts.)

In this habeas corpus proceeding it must be determined whether the Circuit Judge had a legal predicate in the finding made as shown by the statement, for adjudicating an imprisonment for contempt of court, the charge being that the respondent below, Petitioner here, made and caused to be published statements intended to impugn the integrity of the Judge and to embarrass the Judge in deciding a case on appeal from the municipal court.

The general common law of England is in force in this State except where it is “inconsistent with the constitution and…