PER CURIAM.
The appellant, Manuel W. James, is an attorney practicing in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit who has been held in contempt of court for his failure to appear in court at the call of a criminal case in which he had been retained to represent the defendant. We hold that this appeal from the judgment of contempt must be reversed because the procedure employed did not afford the accused a fair opportunity to present evidence of the reasons for his failure to...
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