State ex rel. Shoemaker

HAMITER, Justice.

A writ of certiorari with a stay order, as well as a rule to show cause, was issued herein for the purpose of permitting a review of the proceedings in which relator, James F. Shoemaker, was held in contempt by the Judge of the Juvenile Court of Caddo Parish, and immediately remanded to jail to serve a sentence of ten days, for his failure to produce his child in court as the judge had ordered. The record furnished us in compliance with the writ of certiorari, together with the return of the Judge, discloses the circumstances hereinafter described.

In July, 1955, while relator…