Legal Opinion
In Re Murray Stewart
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 24, 1978No. 77-1458PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Circuit Judge.
The appellant Murray Stewart was adjudged guilty of civil contempt by the district court and sentenced to a fine and a period of probation. The fine has been paid and the period of probation has run its course. The judgment of contempt is invalid and is reversed.
This case is shot through with error. At the invitation of this court, the Department of Justice has appeared as amicus curiae, and it acknowledges that the judgment of contempt was improper and that it must be reversed.
Stewart is county engineer for Hinds County, Mississippi. Thomas Stubblefield was a county…
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