IN RE PETTY

No. 10690.

18 Utah 2d 320 (1967)

422 P.2d 659

IN RE CONTEMPT OF NEUMAN C. PETTY, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Utah.

January 19, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee W. Hobbs, Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Phil L. Hansen, Atty. Gen., Ronald N. Boyce, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


ELLETT, Justice.

The appellant appeals from a sentence imposed for alleged contempt of court committed when he refused to testify as a witness in a case wherein another person was being prosecuted for the crime of perjury in the first degree. In a separate case he was jointly charged with the defendant and others with the crime of conspiracy to commit ten alleged crimes consisting of one hundred and forty-three overt acts.

At the perjury trial the appellant...

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