Bailey v. State ex rel. Yancy

Brady, Tom P., J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Calhoun County finding appellant guilty of contempt of that court by a willful criminal and contumacious refusal to abide by injunctive order prohibiting violation of intoxicating liquor laws. The appellant was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to serve forty-five days of a six months sentence in the county jail. The pertinent facts are as follows:

On August 27, 1964, the district attorney, Jesse L. Yancy, Jr., filed a bill for injunction, temporarily en*862joining James Bailey and wife, Mary Bailey, from violating the…