Champion v. State

BRETT, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a citation for direct contempt of Court imposed upon Mr. J. B. Champion, Jr., an attorney in Ard- more, Oklahoma, by District Judge Kenneth Shilling, of the Twentieth Judicial District of Oklahoma. The citation is essentially premised upon the attorney’s actions and comments made in the presence of the trial court during the proceedings which preceded the trial of E. K. Bearden, on a charge of murder. See: Bearden v. State, Okl.Cr. See Also: Crumb v. State, Okl. Cr.

Having just completed the consideration of both of those appeals, the total…