Court Opinion

ID: 9639250
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:09:16.46173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:14.764402
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On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant complains that in our opinion we left undecided the applicability — on his appeal — of the decision in Nye v. United States, 313 U.S. 33, 61 S.Ct. 810, 85 L.Ed. 1172. His contention is that in his case, as in the Nye case, the acts of which he was adjudged guilty were committed out of the presence of the court and not so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice.
A short answer to this is that the con-tempts as found by Judge Bailey and as affirmed by us, i. e., the continued untimely filing — for improper purposes — of motions for subpoenas and the filing of the affidavit of bias,1 which Judge Bailey and we found obstructed the orderly administration of justice, took place in the courtroom, or maybe, in some instances, in the Clerk’s Office, and whether in the one or in the other, in every instance, in the actual progress of the trial in which appellant was actively of counsel. Ex parte Savin, Petitioner, 131 U.S. 267, 9 S.Ct. 699, 33 L.Ed. 150. If this fact is not implicit in our opinion, the opinion should be considered as amended accordingly.
The fact that, in carrying forward appellant’s plan to disrupt the trial, some of his acts were committed out of the immediate presence of the judge did not deprive the court of the right to deal summarily with the wrongful conduct. And there is nothing in the Nye case to the contrary.
Petition denied.

 Appellant’s testimony before Judge Bailey as to the filing of the motion to disqualify Judge Eicher for bias is that it “was placed on the Clerk’s desk in Chief Justice Eicher’s Court,” at 4:10 or 4:15 April 26th. The docket record shows that the motion was denied by Judge Eicher the same day.