Magee v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Jefferson Davis county. Hon. B. E. Sheehy,.Chancellor. . The chancery court adjudged H. C. Magee and Bich Magee guilty of contempt and they appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Jefferson Davis county. Hon. B. E. Sheehy,.Chancellor. . The chancery court adjudged H. C. Magee and Bich Magee guilty of contempt and they appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. A reading of the whole record in our opinion develops the fact that appellants turned over the child voluntarily to the custody of Pleas Walker, and because Buford would not stay with Pleas, his father, because he ran away and kept himself hid, and because appellants would not run him away from their premises, or take him by force and carry him back to…
1Opinion of the Court
MoLain, C.
This is an appeal by appellants from an order of the chancery court of Jefferson Davis county, adjudging them guilty of constructive contempt of court, for violat•ing and willfully interfering in the execution of a decree of that court, rendered on the 21st day of March, 1910, wherein it was decreed that Pleas Walker be awarded the custody and control of one Buford Walker, a boy about ten or eleven years of age. A brief history of the case may be necessary to a clear conception of the questions here involved:
Rich Magee was the father of two children, one a son by the name of Id. C.…
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