Shiflet v. State

This is an appeal by Betty Shifiet from a conviction in the Criminal Court of Hamblen County for criminal contempt of court in which the judge, sitting without the intervention of a jury, sentenced her to serve six months in the Hamblen County Jail, and to pay a fine of $50.00, together with costs, for the violation of a temporary injunction prohibiting her from selling whiskey.

The assignments of error here are, in effect, that: (1) the evidence preponderates against the verdict and in favor of the accused in that the proof fails to show that the defendant Betty Shifiet was in contempt of…