Committee overview

House Committee on Judges M. Walker and Wesley Ogden, Supreme Court - 14th R.S. (1874)

Committee Members

Washington Lafayette Denman, Chair
Decimus et Ultimus Barziza
William Shelby Delany
Benjamin Holland Epperson
John Woods Harris
James Harvey McLeary
Henry F. O'Neal
William Branch Sayers
William Jesse Swain

Charges

Take into consideration the conduct of Judges M. Walker and Wesley Ogden, of the Supreme Court, in their attempt, without authority of law or other cause, to destroy and crush out of existence the other co-ordinate branches of the government.*

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

Notes

Appointed by Speaker 1/19/1874, pursuant to resolution by Denman (House Journal, 14th R.S., p. 21).

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