Weinstein v. Heimberg

OPINION

SHRIVER, Judge.

THE CASE

This is an appeal in a divorce case from a decree adjudging appellant, Murray Heimberg, to be in contempt of Court and wherein he was sentenced to five weekends in the Metropolitan Jail.

There is also an appeal from an order dismissing appellant’s petition to reduce child support, the two appeals being consolidated by order of May 12, 1971.

Inasmuch as the decree denying petitioner a new trial specifically declined to stay the jail sentence for contempt, it was necessary for appellant to petition this Court for certiorari and supersedeas, which petition was granted…