Garland v. Garland

This appeal is from an order entered in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County by Judge Kenneth C. Proctor finding the appellant in contempt of that court. Because procedural requirements and the manner of the punishment flow from the nature of the proceeding, State v. Roll and Scholl, 267 Md. 714, 730, 298 A. 2d 867 (1973), which modified and affirmed Roll and Scholl v. State, 15 Md. App. 31, 288 A. 2d 605 (1972), we shall first examine the law relating to contempts.

The Court of Appeals said in State v. Roll and Scholl, supra, at 727:

“Today, contempts are classified as civil or criminal and…