COOK v. STATE

No. 55292.

483 So.2d 371 (1986)

Henry J. COOK, III v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Tucker, III, Bay St. Louis, for appellant.

Tom Wright Teel, Walter W. Teel, Sekul, Hornsby, Wallace & Teel, Biloxi, for appellee.

Before WALKER, P.J., and HAWKINS and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I.

This appeal arises from a charge of indirect or constructive criminal contempt leveled against a Gulf Coast lawyer. In the court below the accused was found to have counseled his client to violate a child custody decree by pretermitting some of her ex-husband's visitation rights. For reasons explained below, we reverse and render.

An important feature of the proceedings below involved the chancellor's occupying...

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