Spruell v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

It has long been the law of this state that while a trial judge may, for a direct criminal contempt committed in the presence of the court, hold the offender in contempt without a hearing and impose punishment, acting on his own knowledge of the facts, to do so he must in his order set forth fully and clearly the facts found and conclusions of law upon which the order is based. Brown v. Homes, 131 Ga. App. 148 (205 SE2d 716) (1974). The order sentencing the offending attorney in this case does neither. It is true that there are attached td the order three pages of…