R.B.  Buchanan was here notified that he was violating the laws of the land, and that he would be fined if he persisted in disturbing the session of the court.  The reply of said Buchanan was “that he could not be trifled with,” and immediately seized the said H.P.  Haun, County Judge as aforesaid, by the arm, and attempted to drag him from the room where the court was in session.  Whereupon a fine of two hundred dollars was then and there imposed upon the said R.B.  Buchanan for a contempt of court.

The said R.B.  Buchanan then and there called upon the fifty persons ordered out by him as his posse to take hold of the said H.P.  Haun, and take him from the court.  But the persons in attendance, conceiving the order to arrest the Hon. H.P.  Haun to be illegal and unjustifiable, refused to assist the sheriff in the execution of his illegal order.  The sheriff then retired, and the court was then adjourned to 3 o’clock P.M.

Court met pursuant to adjournment.  Court adjourned to to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock.

I hereby certify the above to be a true transcript of the record of the proceedings of the Court of Sessions on the 10th day of June, A.D. 1850.  Witness E.D.  Wheeler, clerk of the Court of Sessions of Yuba County, California, with the seal of the court affixed, this 26th day of December, A.D. 1850.

[L.S.] E.D.  WHEELER, Clerk.

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The records of the District Court show the following entry made the same day, June 10, 1850: 

“A communication was received from H.P.  Haun, stating ’that if he was guilty of obstructing the order of the court in releasing Field, he did it ignorantly, not intending any contempt by so doing.’  Whereupon the court ordered that H.P.  Haun be released from confinement, and his fine be remitted.”  The following is taken from the deposition of Mr. Wheeler, the clerk of the court, before the committee of the Assembly to whom was referred the petition of citizens of Yuba County for the impeachment of Judge Turner: 

MARCH 26th, 1851.

E.D.  Wheeler,[1] being duly sworn, says:  I reside in Marysville, Yuba County; I am the county clerk of that county; I know Wm. R. Turner, judge of the Eighth Judicial District; I am clerk of his court in and for Yuba County.

Question.  Were you in court on the 7th day of June last, when Stephen J. Field was fined by Judge Turner and ordered to be imprisoned?  If so, please to state what took place at that time in court.

Ans.  I was in court on the 7th day of June last.  A motion was made in a suit (Cameron against Sutter) in which Stephen J. Field was counsel for the defendant, upon which motion a discussion arose among the members of the bar employed in the case.