Herd v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “commitment for contempt must provide not only a penalty but the footpath for avoidance of the sanction.”
• “the contemner [sic] must be afforded the chance to rid himself of guilt and thus clear himself of the charge. To suspend the sentence and allow the conviction to stand falls well short of the mark.”
• “When the Court of Appeals and this Court speak of a ‘provision for purging’ or ‘opportunity for purging’, we mean that the contemner (sic) must be afforded the chance to rid himself of guilt and thus clear himself of the charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).