Court Opinion

ID: 9650560
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:43:47.205462+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:24.733401
License: Public Domain

ROSE, Circuit Judge
(concurring). I agree that while the defendant to a charge of criminal contempt may sue out a writ of error, no one else may. In the instant ease, it may be worth while also to point out that from the standpoint of the law, no one other than the government is aggrieved by the acquittal of one accused of such contempt, and therefore it alone has, any right to complain of such action. The United States has taken no part in these proceedings.
*96I also agree that the act of 1907 mentioned in the opinion of the court affords no support to these writs of error. Under that statute, the United States alone can sue out a writ of error, and the right of review it gives is still vested in the Supreme Court exclusively. Act of February 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 938 [Comp. St. Supp. 1925, § 1215]).