Case Name: PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, Respondent, v. EVAN R. OWENS, Appellant
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1892-01
Citations: 8 Utah 20
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, Respondent, v. EVAN R. OWENS, Appellant.
Judges: Zane, O. J., and Andeeson, J., concurred.
Reporter: Utah Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 20–20

Head Matter:
PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, Respondent, v. EVAN R. OWENS, Appellant.
Contempt. — Appeal prom; Judgment. — Appellate Jurisdiction. —Where the court below had jurisdiction of a proceeding adjudging the defendant to be in contempt, a review of such a proceeding can only be had in an appellate court by virtue of some statutory provision.
Appeal from a judgment of the district court of the first district. The opinion states the facts.

Opinion:
BlaciíbuRN, J.:
The defendant was arrested on an attachment for contempt, and he was discharged on the payment of the costs of attachment, and from that order he appeals. We think we cannot review a proceeding in contempt when the court below had jurisdiction. There is nothing in our statutes allowing an appeal in such cases, and the rule of law is that each court judges for itself in cases of contempt, and the judgment of the court is not a subject of review by an appellate court. When an appeal is allowed it is by statutory provision. Notes to Clark v. People, 12 Amer. Dec. 184; Yates v. Lansing, 9 Johns. 395; Baldwin v. Miles, 58 Conn. 496, 20 Atl. Rep. 618. Therefore the appeal must be dismissed.
Zane, O. J., and Andeeson, J., concurred.