¶1(mm. con.) imposed the fine of two dollars and sixty-seven cents, (being twenty shillings, Maryland currency.) And Cranch, C. J., said that he was of opinion that, as the ease before the justice appeared by the attachment to be a case of small debt, recoverable in the manner provided for by the Act of 1791, c. 68, the punishment of the witness could not be extended beyond that prescribed by that act.
4 D.C. 572
Ex parte Gorman
Decided March 15, 1835
MR. Gorman was summoned by T. C. Coote, Esq., a justice of the peace to attend before him as a witness for the Corporation of Washington against Robert Crook ; and having failed to attend, the justice on the 11th of May, 1835, issued his attachment under the Act of Maryland of 1791, c. 68, § 8, returnable to this Court on the fourth Monday of May, instant, to which day this Court stood adjourned. Mr. Gorman answered on oath, but did not purge himself of the contempt.
Decided 1835-03-15