Finn v. City of Fultondale

TYSON, Judge.

William J. Finn was found to be in contempt of court by the Municipal Judge for the City of Fultondale, Alabama. The municipal judge fined Finn $50 and sentenced him to five days in the Jefferson County Jail.

The record reveals that on July 22, 1982, Judge Young, the Municipal Judge for the City of Fultondale, ordered the incarceration of one Wally Yeager. On either July 23, 1982 or August 6, 1982, William Finn, Chief of Police for the City of Fultondale, placed 1 Yeager on “work release”. This was done without consulting the municipal judge. Yeager’s incarceration was for…