Parties may be indicted, when.

476.160. Persons punished for contempt under the provisionsof sections 476.010 to 476.310 shall, notwithstanding, be liableto indictment for such contempt, if the same be an indictableoffense; but the court before which a conviction shall be had onsuch indictment shall, in forming its sentence, take intoconsideration the punishment before inflicted.

(RSMo 1939 § 2033)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1869; 1919 § 2364; 1909 § 3886