Case Name: Thwing vers. Dennie
Court: Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1772-04
Citations: 1 Super. Ct. Jud. 338
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thwing vers. Dennie.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, between 1761 and 1772
Volume: 1
Pages: 338–338

Head Matter:
Thwing vers. Dennie.
1772.
An Attempt pers from the opposite Party in Court is a Contempt.
DENNIE was opening his Papers and Evidences; Thwing in a most savage Manner attempted to snatch some of them out of Dennie’s and hereby tore some Papers very essential in the Cause.

Opinion:
Hhe Courts
seeing Thwing's Behaviour, ordered the Sheriff to take him immediately into Custody, which he did, and committed him to Prison.