State Ex Rel. Middleton v. District Court

MR. JUSTICE' MATTHEWS

delivered the opinion of the court.

The relator, Austin B. Middleton, filed in this court petition and affidavit for a writ of supervisory control to review the order of the district court of Powell county and Hon. George B. Winston, judge thereof, adjudging him guilty of contempt of court, and thereon this court issued its alternative writ directing the respondents to show cause on May 20, 1929, why the judgment should not be annulled.

In response to the order, the respondents appeared by W. E. Casleton, Esq., the relator in the contempt proceedings, and moved to quash the…