In Re Browning

Foth, J.:

This is an appeal from an order adjudging the appellant, Virginia Nichols, guilty of indirect civil contempt of court. The contempt charge grew out of appellant’s failure to comply with an order, in a child custody-habeas corpus action, requiring her to deliver custody of her three children to their father.

On January 5, 1977, the trial court found appellant guilty and sentenced her to the Reno county jail until she purged herself. However, it also stayed the sentence imposed to permit her to purge herself by delivering the children at a specified time and place the following day. At…