Bryant v. Bryant

JONES, Justice.

Rudy C. Bryant appeals from a judgment of the Henderson Circuit Court which sentenced him to six months in jail and fined him the sum of five hundred ($500.00) for contempt. The fine and jail sentence were imposed because Rudy failed to comply with the trial court’s order to deliver the custody of the parties’ infant son Kevin to his mother, Patricia.

Rudy attacks the judgment on the theory that this court had no authority to direct the trial court to cause the immediate return of Kevin to Patricia. He bases this theory on the premise that:(1) Patricia did not, prior to the…