Morrow v. Roberts

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Petitioner Michael Morrow was found in contempt of the Faulkner Circuit Court on two separate counts. He was sentenced to fifteen days in jail and fined thirty dollars for failure to respond to a subpoena. When Morrow was brought before the court on that charge he was instructed to permit his hair to be cut. He declined and was sentenced to thirty days on the county penal farm. The sentences were to run consecutively and it was provided that he could purge himself of the second sentence if during the first fifteen day period he permitted his hair to be cut. The following…