Ellison v. Mummert
| Decision Date | 07 October 1969 |
| Docket Number | No. 9784,9784 |
| Citation | Ellison v. Mummert, 459 P.2d 306, 105 Ariz. 46 (Ariz. 1969) |
| Parties | Virginia A. ELLISON, Petitioner, v. John MUMMERT, Sheriff of Maricopa County, John E. Burke, Judge of Superior Court, Maricopa County, Respondents. |
| Court | Arizona Supreme Court |
Dohn M. Rosenthal, Maricopa County Legal Aid Society, Mesa, for petitioner.
Moise Berger, Maricopa County Atty., Phoenix, by Albert Firestein, Deputy County Atty., Phoenix, for respondents.
Petitioner, Virginia A. Ellison, was incarcerated on August 11, 1969 pursuant to a Superior Court hearing held on an Order to Show Cause why she should not be held in contempt of court and punished accordingly for violation of certain provisions of a decree of divorce issued July 2, 1969 which provisions were designated as 'paragraphs III a.; III c.; III f.; XVI; XX and XXI of said decree of divorce'.After the hearing held on August 11, 1969the Court entered the following order regarding the purported contempt:
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8 cases
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Nab v. Nab
...make a specific finding of ability to comply with an order of the court as a predicate to an adjudication of contempt. See Ellison v. Mummert, 459 P.2d 306 (Ariz.1969); People v. Razatos, 699 P.2d 970 (Colo.1985); Wright v. District Court, 192 Colo. 553, 561 P.2d 15 (1977); Marshall v. Mars......
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State v. Deddens
...(1926), and In re Wright, 36 Ariz. 8, 281 P. 944 (1929), have never been specifically overruled, but I believe that Ellison v. Mummert, 105 Ariz. 46, 459 P.2d 306 (1969), tends to do so. In that case we 'An adjudication of contempt must be based on specific facts found which show knowledge ......
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State v. Cohen
...This is the rule enunciated in Weiss v. Superior Court, 106 Ariz. 577, 480 P.2d 3 (1971), a direct contempt case, and Ellison v. Mummert, 105 Ariz. 46, 459 P.2d 306 (1969), a constructive contempt Although the trial judge made several remarks during the course of the trial indicating that h......
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Weiss v. Superior Court of Pima County
...set forth with sufficient particularity to show, without the aid of speculation, that the contempt actually occurred. Ellison v. Mummert, 105 Ariz. 46, 459 P.2d 306 (1969); Busby v. State ex rel. LaFon, Okl.Cr., 449 P.2d 718 (1969); Golden v. Superior Court of Cochise County, 8 Ariz.App. 25......
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