Case ID: dc_1/html/0130-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Marshall, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Andrew Scholfield.
    An attachment of contempt, for not attending as a witness, must not be served in the court-house. If the witness arrives before service of the attachment, and makes a reasonable excuse, the Court will countermand the attachment on payment of the costs of issuing it.
    Attachment for not attending yesterday as a witness. He attended this day before the attachment was served. The deputy marshal (Pratt) had called the witness out of the room in which the Court sat, into the corridor or vestibule adjoining, and which was the common entry into the court-room, and there served the attachment. Upon the witness being called upon to answer on oath to the attachment, and giving a reasonable excuse, he was discharged on payment of costs.
    Afterwards, the same day, Mr. Woodward, for the witness, moved that he might be relieved from the payment of the marshal’s costs of service of the attachment; and the above facts appearing on oath of the witness himself and admitted by the deputy marshal, the CouRT ordered the return of the attachment to' be quashed, and the attachment to be entered countermanded, on payment of the cost of issuing the attachment.
   Marshall, J.,

doubting whether the presence of the Court was to be considered as extending beyond the room itself in which the Court sits.