McWhirt v. Fearnow

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing appellant (McWhirt) to the Indiana State Farm for ninety days for contempt of court. We affirm.

The sentence was imposed during the course of proceedings before the court without a jury in a civil case in which the named appellee (Fearnow) had sued McWhirt for a money judgment as the result of a business transaction. On October 29, 1971, the trial court made a record (under the cause number and caption of the civil action) showing it had heard the plantiff’s evidence, the defendant’s evidence, and plaintiff’s rebuttal evidence, and the parties had…