State ex rel. Clark v. Fishback

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

The appellants were adjudged guilty of an indirect contempt of court in disobeying a temporary injunction issued under the prohibitory liquor law. They were sentenced to fines and imprisonment, and bring these proceedings to reverse the judgment.

It is claimed that the accusation is indefinite in not stating the names of the persons to whom the sales were made in violation of the injunction or the kind of liquors sold. The offense charged in the accusation, however, was not the sale of intoxicating liquors contrary to the statute prohibiting…