Ford v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Certiorari to Mississippi Chancery Court. Edwahd D. RobeRtson,v Chancellor. Under our statute the punishment for contempt cannot exceed a fine of $50 and an imprisonment for ten days.
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Certiorari to Mississippi Chancery Court. Edwahd D. RobeRtson,v Chancellor. Under our statute the punishment for contempt cannot exceed a fine of $50 and an imprisonment for ten days. Sand. & H. Dig., § 686; S3 Ark. 151; 44 Cal. 475; 44 la. 580; 34 Kan. 314. Certi-orari is the proper remedy when the court has exceeded its ¡jurisdiction. 39 Ark. 173; 53 Ark. 313; 30 Ark. 17; 33 Ark. 107. The legislature has no power to impose limitations upon the authority of the courts to punish contempts by disobedience of process. Of. art. 7, § 36, Const. Ark.; 16 Ark. 384; id. 151; 78 Am. St. 157; S. C.…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Petitioners, Ford and Beatty, were each adjudged guilty of contempt of court by the chancery court of Mississippi county; said contempt consisting in disobedience to a process of injunction issued by said court. One was fined in the sum of $500, and the other in the sum of $100. This proceeding is by certio-rari to quash the judgment, on the ground that the punishment imposed was in excess of the court’s jurisdiction. Art. 7, § 36, of the constitution is as follows: “The general assembly shall have power to regulate by law the punishment of contempts not committed in the presence or hearing…
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