Dodd v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court adjudging appellant to be guilty of indirect criminal contempt.1

The points relied on and argued before this court were: (1) the contention that the appellant was not afforded due process, through holding the hearing prior to the return date, in that respondent was entitled to the full time fixed by the rule to show cause in which he might have filed a sworn denial entitling him to be discharged, and (2) that the matters with which he was charged in the rule to show cause were insufficient to show contempt.

After hearing argument, this court…