TANNER v. CANSLER

Nos. DD-363 and DD-394.

352 So.2d 538 (1977)

John W. TANNER, Petitioner, v. George CANSLER, As Director of Corrections Volusia County, Florida, and Edwin H. Duff, Sheriff of Volusia County, Florida, Respondents. John W. TANNER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida and J. Robert Durden, Circuit Judge, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied December 22, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Bradley Munroe, Tallahassee, and John W. Tanner, Daytona Beach, for petitioner.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Charles W. Musgrove, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

John W. Tanner, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Raymond L. Marky and Charles W. Musgrove, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.


RAWLS, Judge.

During a criminal trial in which attorney Tanner was counsel for one of the defendants, the trial court adjudged him guilty of direct criminal contempt and sentenced him to 24 hours in the county jail. Tanner contends the trial court erred in failing to recite in its judgment of guilt the facts upon which he was adjudicated guilty of contempt and erred in finding his conduct contemptuous. We agree and reverse.

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