3 Md. App. 642 - Chambers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Under the common law there was no appeal from the judgment or order of the court in contempt proceedings regardless of whether the contempt was criminal or civil in its nature, unless specially authorized by statute. This was the conclusion reached by the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Kelly v. Montebello Park Co., 141 Md. 194 , 118 A. 600 , 28 A.L.R. 33 (1922). There the Court in its opinion pointed out that since there is no statute in this State providing for appeals in contempt cases, the common law would apply, and “the order appealed from is not subject to review by this court.” The Court of Appeals reached a similar conclusion in the later case of Ex Parte Sturm, 152 Md. 114, 124-126 , 136 A. 312 , 51 A.L.R. 356 (1927), where the Court found that a judgment imposing a fine for criminal contempt in violating an order within the legitimate scope of the court’s authority was not appealable, since there was no statute in force expressly providing for appeals in such cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Howard County v. Pack Shack, Inc.