CARROLL v. STATE

8 Div. 989.

350 So.2d 723 (1977)

John T. CARROLL v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing October 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherman B. Powell, Jr., for Powell & Powell, Decatur, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen. and James S. Ward, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

Petitioner was adjudged guilty of contempt of court for "disruptive misconduct in open court in the courtroom during judicial proceedings, i. e., abusive and obscene language to a female officer of the court", and was sentenced to five days confinement in the Morgan County Jail and fined fifty dollars.

On December 2, 1976, a petition for a writ of certiorari was transferred from the Court of Civil Appeals to the Supreme Court of this state. The...

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