Boydstun v. State

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Winston County, Mississippi, wherein the appellant, R. W. Boydstun, Jr., was found guilty of direct contempt of court and was sentenced to serve a term of thirty days in the Winston County jail. From that judgment this appeal is taken.

On July 15, 1970, the appellant, a member of the Winston County Bar, appeared before the Circuit Court of Winston County, Mississippi, acting as his own attorney, in regards to an appeal from a plea of not guilty in a justice of the peace court to the offense of improper parking on a public thoroughfare.…