In Re Edgar Timmons, Jr., Hercules Anderson, Christopher McIntosh Jr. And Theodore Franklin Clark

In a pastoral panegyric coupled with citation of legal authority, appellants, who were sentenced to thirty days imprisonment for criminal contempt of a district court order commanding them to vacate a federal wildlife refuge situated on an idyllic estuary on the coast of Georgia, challenge the validity of the order they were accused of violating and the regularity of the proceedings condemning them. Precedent, logic and respect for public order, however, require us to affirm the contempt judgment, for reasons we set forth below.

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