In Re Adoption of Myers

This appeal rises from a proceeding in criminal contempt in the Chancery Court of Shelby County. The alleged contempt was an incident of an adoption proceeding then pending in that Court. The petition for adoption was being heard under the provisions of Chapter 202, Public Acts of 1951. The young mother of the child, a girl 17 years old at the time of the hearing, had filed her verified, written consent and surrender of the child to a Mr. So Mrs. Myers for adoption before the Chancellor, as required by Sections 6-8 of the Act of 1951, and in accordance with Section 16 of said Act, an order of…