In Re McKenna

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus based principally upon the ground that the trial court was without jurisdiction to punish petitioner for contempt. The commitment was issued after the „ court had made two orders, one of which found the petitioner guilty of contempt of court for failure to pay alimony, and sentenced the petitioner to two days in the county jail, which order was afterward modified by the second order, and was made on- application of petitioner, permitting him to pay $5 per month until he should have paid the sum of $60 ordered to be paid by him by an order…