Welchel v. Boyter

Brailsford, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the Spartanburg County Court adjudging Samuel E. Welchel to be in contempt of court and sentencing him to confinement for fifteen days on the public works of Spartanburg County, unless he purges himself of contempt “by permitting Geddes Charles Boyter, III (Mr. Welchel’s four-year-old stepson, known as Chucky) to have lunch at a public restaurant on two successive Saturdays with his grandparents (Geddes C. Boyter and Louise Boyter).” The child’s father was killed in July, 1968, and his mother married Samuel E. Welchel in May, 1971. Chucky…