MELVIN ET AL. v. STATE

No. 37611.

210 Miss. 132 (1950)

48 So.2d 856

MELVIN, et al. v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

November 27, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin & Melvin, for appellants.

W.W. Pierce, also for appellants.

George H. Ethridge, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


Ethridge, C.

This case requires the application of old and well established principles of the law of constructive contempt of court to an unusual statute and factual situation. The appellants were adjudged by the Chancery Court of Rankin County of constructive or indirect contempt of that court and sentenced to thirty days each in the county jail, and the court imposed a fine of $250.00 on L.G. Melvin and of...

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