State ex rel. Coates v. Parchman

WOLFE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment finding the defendant Parchman and his attorneys, Alphonse J. Lynch and Robert L. Witherspoon, in contempt of court for an alleged violation of an injunction. The appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, but that Court held that it lacked jurisdiction of the appeal and transferred it to this Court. State ex rel. Coates v. Parchman, Mo., 346 S.W.2d 74.

The action giving rise to the injunction was instituted by the pastor and others claiming to be the officers of the St. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. It was against Parchman and others who claimed…