Section 13 Purpose

• Library: Remedies 2006

The power of criminal contempt springs not from the need to protect a litigant, as in civil contempt, but from the need to protect the judicial system established by the people as the method of solving disputes. State ex rel. Picerno v. Mauer, 920 S.W.2d 904 (Mo. App. W.D. 1996); State ex rel. Burrell-El v. Autrey, 752 S.W.2d 895 (Mo. App. E.D. 1988); Teefey v. Teefey, 533 S.W.2d 563 (Mo. banc 1976). “[A]ll courts of record . . . have both inherent and statutory power to punish a criminal contempt committed within or without their...