Fields v. City of Fairfield

MERRILL, Justice.

Dr. Edward R. Fields and Robert Lyons were adjudged to be in contempt of circuit court because they had been found guilty of violating a temporary injunction issued by the court against them as individuals, and against the National States Rights Party, of which they were officers, enjoining them from conducting an advertised meeting in Fairfield. Field and Lyons were each fined $50 and sentenced to 5 days in jail.

Petitioners “appealed” their judgment of conviction to this court and later their attorney “discovered that writ of certiorari is the proper remedy in this case,”…