Ex Parte Fennig, Ex Parte Whipple

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Adams Circuit Court finding the appellant, Tod Whipple, guilty of criminal contempt of said court, fixing his fine, payable to the State of Indiana, in the sum of $100.00 and sentencing him to the Adams County jail for a period of thirty days.

The contempt of which the appellant was found guilty consisted of certain defamatory and contemptuous statements made by the appellant concerning the official acts of one Henry Kister, who was at the time acting as special judge in cause numbered 12646 then pending in the Adams Circuit Court, entitled “William…