In re Nelson

MR. JUSTICE CASTLES:

Original proceeding. The petitioner has petitioned this court for a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of review. On the 21st day of October, 1957, the petitioner was found guilty of contempt of the district court by the Honorable Victor H. Fall, presiding in the Eighteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Gallatin, and punished by confinement in the county jail for five days.

*253It is thought that the question presented is of sufficient importance and interest to the bar to warrant this opinion.

The facts leading up to confinement of the…