Court of Appeals of North Carolina December 20, 1972, No. 7221DC831 (State v. Howell)

PARKER, Judge.

Defendants have been charged with violation of G.S. 5-8, which grants to every court of record power to punish certain conduct as for contempt “when the act complained of was such as tended to defeat, impair, impede, or prejudice the rights or remedies of a party to an action then pending in court.