WEAVER v. STATE

[No. 526, September Term, 1965.]

244 Md. 640 (1966)

224 A.2d 684

WEAVER v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Archie D. Williams for appellant.

John C. Cooper, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr. and R. Samuel Jett, Jr., State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


HORNEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question posed by this appeal is whether or not the Municipal Court of Baltimore City, absent the signing of a formal order of contempt and the giving of reasonable time to make a defense, had jurisdiction to punish for a contempt arising out of the failure of a party defendant to appear at the postponed hearing of a case in obedience to an oral command given by the court at the time of postponement.

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