Hopping v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

DeBRULER, Justice.

Appellant was convicted upon two charges of contempt of court in the Dearborn County Court. The Court of Appeals (First District) affirmed the convictions with one judge dissenting. Hopping v. State (1994), Ind.App., 627 N.E.2d 875. Appellant filed a petition to transfer which we now grant.

Appellant raises multiple issues in support of this appeal which we consolidate and restate as follow:

1) whether his conduct reflected in the record supports the use of summary proceedings and the determinations of guilt; and

' 2) whether the sentences were an abuse…