Ex parte Chastain
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Certiorari to Sebastian Circuit Court; Daniel Hon, Judge; The commitment is illegal, irregular and void. Kirby’s Dig. § 723. The judgment should contain a statement of the facts constituting the contempt. 73 Ark. 358. The grounds of the contempt need not be stated. 5 Ired. Law, 149; 73 Ark. 358; 14 East 1; 5 Dow. 199; 3 B. & Aid. 420; 11 Adol. & El. 273; 9 Adol. & El. 1. Contempt judgments were not reviewable at common law. 22 Ark. 149.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Petitioner brings up by certiorari for review a judgment by the circuit court of .Sebastian County, Fort Smith District, adjudging him and another person to be in contempt of the court “on acount of language and conduct in open court,” and imposing a fine of $10 as punishment for the contempt.
The above-quoted statement of the case is taken from the judgment of the court, and it is all which tends to describe the alleged contemptuous conduct. It is insisted that the judgment is void because it fails to set forth the particular language or to describe the conduct adjudged to be contemptuous.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ex parte DaviesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1903
3Cited by4 opinions
- Johnson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1967
- Silverton v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Widmer v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1968
- Wilson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1924