Ruppe

The petitioner having failed to comply with a judgment awarding alimony, as modified, and with subsequent orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, was pronounced guilty of contempt of said court. He prays that the order last mentioned be reviewed upon the ground that it appears upon the face of the record that the same was in excess of the jurisdiction of the tribunal which made it, and that it should be annulled.

Upon an order to show cause why the petitioner should not be adjudged guilty of contempt for failure and refusal to pay certain monthly installments of alimony in accordance with a modified judgment, and which became due during 1931 and 19-3-2, he appeared, and pursuant to a trial of the question he was directed to make delinquent payments within a specified time. This latter order recited that: “The court finds that the defendant is in arrears and is adjudged guilty of contempt in failing to make payments . . . The court sentences the defendant to the county jail for a period of five (5) days unless all back payments are made within 20 days from date’’, and was entered in the minutes of the court. About one month thereafter, in the absence of the petitioner,…