Lowe v. State

We affirm the trial court’s judgment adjudicating appellant, an attorney, guilty of indirect criminal contempt for failure to appear at the scheduled time of a nonjury trial.

The appellant conceded at the contempt hearing that he was aware of the time of the scheduled trial, and he provided no evidence that his failure to appear resulted from forgetfulness.

We cannot say that the record could not support the trial court’s apparent conclusion that appellant took it upon himself to decide that the judge could deal with other matters at that scheduled time and that therefore appellant need not…