Hendershot v. Hendershot

Miller, Justice:

In this appeal from a criminal contempt proceeding, the appellant, James Hendershot, Sr.,1 urges that his constitutional right to a trial by jury was violated.

Appellant was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail and fined $500 on a charge that he violated a court order in a divorce case which required appellant’s son to relinquish custody of his child — appellant’s grandson — to the son’s wife. The petition for contempt alleged that appellant had conspired with his son to remove the child from the State. We considered some of the procedural aspects of this case in Hendershot v.…