Contempt — suspended jail sentence — criminal — appellate jurisdiction
A decision of the Court of Appeals holding that a contempt order arising from a child support action was civil rather than criminal where the court imposed an active thirty-day jail sentence suspended upon the posting of a cash bond, the payment of interest, the payment of attorney fees and the timely payment of future child support due under prior order, and that the trial court was without authority to adjudicate defendant in civil contempt because he complied with the previous orders before the hearing, is reversed for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion that the order adjudicated defendant in criminal contempt and that a district court order of criminal contempt is appealable to the superior court rather than to the Court of Appeals.
PER CURIAM.
For the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion, the decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed.
REVERSED.