58 Ga. 300 | Ga. | 1877
The question of contempt was settled at a previous term, on substantially the same facts as are contained in this record — 56 Ga., 98. Nothing new has happened to purge the contempt. The alleged inability, from poverty or otherwise, to comply with the order of the court is not proved to have originated since that order was passed. The imprisonment has not even commenced. After imprisonment has been tried for a reasonable time and proved unfruitful as a remedy, the question can be made how and when it ought to terminate. Doubtless, there is some way to reach a case of Iona fide poverty, and prevent imprisonment from becoming perpetual, or even from being unduly protracted. But the
Ma/ndwmus denied.