Nutt v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Adams county.. Hon. James Stowers Hicks, Chancellor. Nutt, appellant, was adjudged in contempt of the chancery court and the decree mentioned in the opinion was entered against him, from which he appealed to the supreme court. Since the appeal was dismissed no> other statement of the facts, in view of the opinion of the court, is deemed necessary.
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
The appeal in this case was prosecuted under section 39 of the Code of 1906. This section authorizes an appeal from the judgment of any court punishing a person for contempt. The decree rendered in the case under consideration, while it adjudged *423Nutt to be in contempt of court, does not impose any fine or other punishment for such contempt. The decree merely recites that appellant is in contempt, and provides that, unless he purges himself of this contempt by complying with a previous order of the court within a certain time fixed, the court would at some future date impose a fine or other…
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