Gwin v. Gwin

BRADLEY, Judge.

The petitioner, John L. Gwin, seeks review by certiorari of a decree rendered by the Circuit Court of Clarke County on January 21, 1975. In that decree petitioner was adjudged to be in contempt for failure to comply with a previous decree wherein he was required to pay periodic alimony in the amount of $60 a week. The contempt decree ordered petitioner to pay $1,800 back alimony or be incarcerated in the county jail.

The record now before us shows that on June 6, 1974 petitioner was ordered to pay his former wife $60 per week as periodic alimony; that petitioner at the time of…