City of Springfield v. Myers

Defendant-appellant Walter Myers was summoned before the Honorable Eugene S. Nevius, a Judge of the Springfield Municipal Court, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. In the course of that hearing, Myers was found to have been in direct contempt of the court, and was ordered incarcerated for a period of ten days. From that judgment, Myers appeals.

Although we agree with Myers that under the totality of the circumstances in this case the contempt proceedings against Myers were so fundamentally unfair as to violate his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to…