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Chapter 20.--COURTS


Article 12.--CONTEMPTS OF COURT

     
20-1203.   Direct contempts.
That a direct contempt may be punished summarily, without written
accusation against the person arraigned, but if the court or judge in
chambers shall adjudge him guilty thereof a judgment shall be entered of
record, in which shall be specified the conduct constituting such contempt,
with a statement of whatever defense or extenuation the accused offered
thereto, and the sentence of the court thereon.

     
History:   L. 1897, ch. 106, § 3; L. 1901, ch. 123, § 1; May 1; R.S. 1923,
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