SHIFLET v. STATE


400 S.W.2d 542 (1966)

Betty SHIFLET, Plaintiff in Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Bacon and John F. Dugger, Morristown, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and William H. Lassiter, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for defendant in error.


WHITE, Justice.

This is an appeal by Betty Shiflet from a conviction in the Criminal Court of Hamblen County for criminal contempt of court in which the judge, sitting without the intervention of a jury, sentenced her to serve six months in the Hamblen County Jail, and to pay a fine of $50.00, together with costs, for the violation of a temporary injunction prohibiting her from selling whiskey.

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