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IN RE WILLIAMS

No. 658.

152 S.E.2d 317 (1967)

269 N.C. 68

In the Matter of Reverend Frank WILLIAMS.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 20, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. W. Bruton and Staff Attorney Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Major S. High, Herman L. Taylor, Greensboro, and Mitchell & Murphy, Raleigh, for appellant.

James Mattocks, High Point, and Charles F. Lambeth, Jr., Thomasville, for North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, Inc., amici curiæ; Daniel H. Pollitt, Chapel Hill, of counsel.

LAKE, Justice.

G.S. § 5-1 provides:

"Any person guilty of any of the following acts may be punished for contempt: "* * * 6. The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness, or, when so sworn, the like refusal to answer any legal and proper interrogatory."

Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, says:

"Contumacious implies stubbornness or perversity, esp. as manifested in willful...

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