Kinner v. Steg

GIVENS, Justice.

September 18, 1953, a hearing was held in the District Court, on an order to show cause why plaintiff should not be punished for contempt for failure to pay stated amounts for the support of his children, as ordered in a previously entered divorce decree. At the conclusion of the evidence, after some colloquy, the learned trial court summarily found plaintiff herein guilty of contempt; that he was $645 in arrears, and ordered him committed to the custody of defendant sheriff for six months, and rendered judgment against him for $645 and costs.

A commitment dated September 19,…