STATE v. HEATH

Nos. 8607-8609.

177 N.W.2d 751 (1970)

STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Mary HEATH, Defendant and Appellant. STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Carol DORSEY, Defendant and Appellant. STATE of North Dakota, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Dwight REDFERN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

June 2, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helgi Johanneson, Atty. Gen., Bismarck, and Richard B. Thomas, States Atty., and Wallace D. Berning, Asst. States Atty., Minot, for plaintiff and respondent State.

Pringle & Herigstad, Minot, for defendants and appellants.

Bruce M. Van Sickle, of McGee, Van Sickle, Hankla, Backes & Wheeler, Minot, amicus curiae.


STRUTZ, Judge, on reassignment.

The defendants in the three above-entitled actions were convicted of criminal contempt of court, under Section 27-10-01(3), North Dakota Century Code. This section provides that a court of record of this State may punish, as for a criminal contempt, any person guilty of any:

"3. Willful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued or made by it; * * *."

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