Judges: PER CURIAM.
Attorneys: Pine Giblin, for Petitioner;
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, and Roy Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
Filed: Feb. 13, 1937
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. The record shows that George A. Worley as State's Attorney in and for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida in the Circuit Court of Dade County, filed an information charging John D. Crews with the offense of contempt of court. The charging part of the information was as follows: "On the 11th day of June, A.D. 1936, in Dade County, Florida, one John D. Crews approached one Mrs. Olive Wofford, wife of John B. Wofford, parties defendant in a certain
Summary: This is an original habeas corpus proceeding. The record shows that George A. Worley as State's Attorney in and for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida in the Circuit Court of Dade County, filed an information charging John D. Crews with the offense of contempt of court. The charging part of the information was as follows: "On the 11th day of June, A.D. 1936, in Dade County, Florida, one John D. Crews approached one Mrs. Olive Wofford, wife of John B. Wofford, parties defendant in a certain ..
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Cases of tampering or attempting to tamper, with jurors, have been held to constitute contempt of court for which punishment may be inflicted in due course of contempt procedure. Wilson v. Joughin, 105 Fla. 353, 141 Sou. Rep. 182; Baumgartner v. Joughin,105 Fla. 335, 141 Sou. Rep. 185. It is equally reprehensible, and likewise subject to punishment, for a person to represent to another that he has ability to exercise undue influence over a judge having a controverted matter pending before him, by exerting such undue influence in a personal way not countenanced by law, whether same is done for reward or pecuniary consideration or not. This case comes within the rule of the Baumgartner case, supra, although it relates to the Judge and not to jurors as being subjects of improper influence.
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