Jordan v. State

This is an appeal from an order adjudicating appellant in contempt of court and imposing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence of ten days.

He urges here that the judgment adjudicating him in contempt was void, because no information, or affidavit, charging him with the acts alleged to constitute contempt was made, nor was any notice given him of such proceeding, or any hearing had thereon.

The order adjudging him in contempt was made under these circumstances:

At the June Term, 1952, of the circuit court of Marion County Stanley Barnes was indicted for the unlawful possession of whiskey.

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