Gardner v. People

Parties may be guilty of contempt by unseemly conduct in the presence of court during a session thereof, or they may at any time or place contemptuously disobey orders of court. To the existence of the last mentioned contempt it is manifest there must be in existence an order of court in respect to some matter over which the court, in making the order, had jurisdiction.

Courts of record speak only by their records; that is to say, for evidence of what a court of record has done, resort must be had to its record. Knowledge of the order of court alleged to have been violated must be shown; for…