State of Oregon v. Yates

The defendant Spencer W. Yates is a member of the Bar of Oregon. He was found guilty in the circuit court for Douglas County of a direct contempt committed in the presence of the court and he was sentenced to imprisonment for one day in jail. He now appeals. The alleged contempt occurred in the course of a jury trial in an action for personal injury entitled Dorothy J. Tucker v. Arcoa, Inc., an Oregon Corporation, in which case Mr. Yates represented the plaintiff. The subject under consideration was the sufficiency of a “trailer hitch” on the trailer which had injured the plaintiff. The…