State ex rel. Deaton v. Sweeney

GREENE, Presiding Judge.

The Honorable J. Miles Sweeney, Associate Circuit Judge, Division III, 31st Judicial Circuit, appeals from an order issued by the Honorable Max E. Bacon, Circuit Judge of Division IV of the same circuit. The order was a writ prohibiting Sweeney from overruling a motion to withdraw as attorney filed by T. Patrick Deaton, the public defender of the circuit.

Deaton had been appointed by the court to represent Dale Alvis Routh, a litigant in a dissolution of marriage action, who had been charged with civil contempt for an alleged contumacious refusal to pay child support.

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