Case Name: Montgomery v. State of Indiana
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1914-10-13
Citations: 182 Ind. 276
Docket Number: No. 22,654
Parties: Montgomery v. State of Indiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 182
Pages: 276–277

Head Matter:
Montgomery v. State of Indiana.
[No. 22,654.
Filed October 13, 1914.]
1. Contempt. — Appeal.—FinaMty of Judgment. — Suspension of Sentence. — Where a sentence of fine and imprisonment imposed for contempt of court is without objection suspended during good behavior, there is no final judgment from which an appeal may be prosecuted, p.277.
Prom Vigo Circuit Court; Charles M. Fortune, Judge.
Proceeding on information for indirect contempt against Harry S. Montgomery. Prom a judgment adjudging him to be in contempt, the defendant appeals.
Appeal 'dismissed.
Charles S. Bait, for appellant.
Thomas M. Honan, Attorney-General, and Thomas H. Branaman, for the State.

Opinion:
Cox, C. J.
Appellant was charged by information filed in the court below with having committed an indirect contempt of its authority by an attempt to take from it and its officials certain documentary evidence alleged to be relevant and material in certain criminal charges then under investigation by that court and the grand jury acting with it. A rule was served on appellant to appear and show cause why he should not be attached and punished for the alleged contempt. He appeared in response to this rule and filed an answer which the court deemed insufficient to purge appellant of the contempt charged and he was adjudged guilty, fined $100 and sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment in jail. This judgment the court suspended during appellant's good behavior without objection or exception from appellant.
In this appeal numerous errors are assigned. The Attorney-General, however, has interposed objection.to the consideration of them by a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that an appeal will only lie from a final judgment and that where sentence is suspended there is no final judgment and therefore no basis for an appeal. The motion is well founded. The question has been decided by this court favorably to the position of the Attorney-General. Walther v. State (1913), 179 Ind. 565, 101 N. E. 1005.
Appeal dismissed.
Note. — Reported in 106 N. E. 370. As to relief of party sentenced for contempt, see 22 Am. St. 417. See, also, 9 Cyc. 63.