PER CURIAM.
Affirmed.
DOWNEY and GUNTHER, JJ., concur.
FARMER, J., dissents with opinion.
FARMER, Judge, dissenting.
The power to punish direct criminal contempt is one of the most unusual of judicial powers: the judge who was the object or butt of the allegedly contemptuous conduct becomes the prosecutor and then sits in judgment over the very defendant who is said to have just assailed the judicial dignity. That precise circumstance...
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