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REEVES v. MORELAND

No. 39911.

577 S.W.2d 125 (1979)

Leon REEVES and Martha Carter, Petitioners, v. Edward MORELAND, Acting Director Department of Welfare, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division One.

January 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis L. Ruppert, Ruppert & Schlueter, Clayton, Bernard Edelman, Jerry J. Murphy, Joseph A. Fenlow, Jr., St. Louis, for petitioners.

Byron A. Roche, Special Prosecutor, Bridgeton, amicus curiae.

Burton Halpern, Bridgeton, Thomas W. Wehrle, St. Louis County Counselor, Andrew J. Minardi, Associate County Counselor, Clayton, for respondent.

SNYDER, Presiding Judge.

In this habeas corpus proceeding, petitioners Leon Reeves and Martha Carter contest their convictions for indirect criminal contempt. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Robert Lee Campbell found petitioners willfully and deliberately violated a valid restraining order issued by him on June 6, 1977.1 Both petitioners were sentenced to twenty days imprisonment in the custody...

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