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11 Ohio St. (N.S.) 681

Baldwin v. State

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1860

Ohio Supreme Court · decided 1860-12-15

Error, to the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county. .Reserved in the district court. This is a petition in error to reverse a summary judgment rendered by the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, for an alleged contempt of court.

Decided 1860-12-15

By the Court.

¶1The testimony adduced at the hearing, is not embodied in the record; but the statements contained in the answer of the plaintiff in error, and the manner in which, these statements are made, do not tend to induce a very strong impression of his innocence of the charge against him.. But we are compelled to say that, in our opinion, the charge made did not bring him within any of the clauses of the first section of the act of February 24, 1884, “ declaratory of the law concerning contempts of court.” (1 Curwen’s Stat. 122.).-But the ease was clearly within the second section of that act, and he ought to have been proceeded against by indictment, and punished under that section.

¶2Judgment reversed.

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