Stotts v. Stotts

Having been adjudged guilty of contempt for failure to comply with the order of the district court requiring him to pay alimony pendente lite to the defendant in error, Stotts, the plaintiff in error, seeks a supersedeas and a reversal of the order. He advances three contentions: First, that the affidavit in contempt was fatally deficient;' second, that the court below had lost jurisdiction by reason of a finding in favor of the plaintiff in error made at a previous hearing on the same citation; and third, that the commitment to jail ordered by the court below was in violation of section 12,…