Farmer v. Holton

Webb, Judge.

During the course of the retrial as to sentence of one George Street who had been convicted of murder and armed robbery,1 attorney Millard Farmer, who at the retrial was counsel for the convicted murderer, was twice adjudged by the trial judge to be guilty of direct criminal contempt of the court. On one contempt charge the sentence was one day in the common jail and on the other the sentence was three days. We find no merit in any of the grounds argued in Farmer’s two appeals, and affirm the judgments of conviction.

First Contempt

The trial court adjudged Farmer in direct criminal…