Skiff v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Certiorari to the Jasper District Court. The plaintiff in error, having been fined and ordered to be imprisoned, for an alleged contempt, he brings the proceedings before usi for revision, by certiorari, under section 1606 of the Code. The clerk of the Jasper county District Court certifies, that the following is “ a full and true transcript of the record of said court'” in said cause : “ Harvey J. Skiff ‘fined for contempt of court, fifty dollars.
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Certiorari to the Jasper District Court. The plaintiff in error, having been fined and ordered to be imprisoned, for an alleged contempt, he brings the proceedings before usi for revision, by certiorari, under section 1606 of the Code. The clerk of the Jasper county District Court certifies, that the following is “ a full and true transcript of the record of said court'” in said cause : “ Harvey J. Skiff ‘fined for contempt of court, fifty dollars. Eor a second contempt, fined one hundred dollars, and ordered to be committed to jail for three days. Mittimus issued to sheriff of Polk county,…
1Opinion of the Court
■Weight, C. J.
We shall notice but one of the several grounds urged for the discharge of the plaintiff in error. Our Code, chapter 94, after specifying what acts or omissions, shall be deemed contempts, and for their punishment, provides, section 1604, that where the action of the court, in such cases, is founded upon evidence given by others, such evidence must be reduced to writing, and be filed and preserved ; and if the court act upon their own knowledge in the premises, a statement of the facts upon which the order is founded, must be entered on the records of the court, or be filed and…
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