Brennan v. State

This is an appeal from the Superior Court of Marion County, Room No. 3, wherein the Honrable Robert G. Robb, judge of that court, held the appellant, Norman E. Brennan, guilty of direct contempt of court for allegedly telling a witness in a divorce case to make a false statement to the effect that he, as an attorney, had been paid no fee by the witness. The evidence shows that the appellant, as an attorney, at the time walked up to the witness chair and outside the hearing of the court (or any bystander), directed the witness to answer in the negative. The question before this court is…