BAILEY v. STATE

No. 84-145.

460 So.2d 525 (1984)

Nelson BAILEY, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Musgrove, Lake Worth, for petitioner.

Joy B. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondent.


DOWNEY, Judge.

Bailey seeks review of an order holding him in contempt of court and fining him $500 for failure to appear at the scheduled criminal trial of his client, William A. August.

It appears that Bailey's client, August, was scheduled for trial on November 17, 1983. Bailey advised the court that he had business out of town on the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth of November. However, the court advised him that criminal trials take precedence over...

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