Skinner v. State

URBIGKIT, Justice.

Appellant was sentenced to a six month jail term for criminal contempt when, following the receipt of a penitentiary sentence, she chose to ignore her surrender date rather than to present herself as directed to begin confinement. She appeals from the additional confinement penalty as the punishment for criminal contempt and contends error in procedural infirmities for assessment of that punishment after jumping bond and failing to report to begin serving her sentence.

We affirm the six month jail sentence.

The specific issues stated are:

I. Whether the trial court erred in…