Pelletier v. Glacier County

In my opinion, the contempt proceeding growing out of the case of Rigney v. Cook, and which we reviewed in State ex rel. Cook v. District Court, 105 Mont. 72, 69 Pac. (2d) 746, while not strictly speaking a “criminal offense,” was nevertheless a proceeding of a “ criminal nature, ” so as to constitute a ‘ ‘ criminal cause” within the meaning of section 8931, Kevised Codes.

In State ex rel. Flynn v. District Court, 24 Mont. 33, 60 Pac. 493, this court, in speaking of a contempt prosecuted under our Code of Civil Procedure, said: “When prosecuted under the Code of Civil Procedure, a contempt of…