This appeal on questions of law is directed to the judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Scioto County, entered on September 19, 1961, finding the defendant-appellant guilty of contempt of court and ordering him to be committed to the Scioto County jail for a period of ten days for failure to comply with an order of the court for the payment of temporary alimony in a divorce case.

Appellant concedes that he has served the sentence imposed by the court and, in our opinion, the question is thereby rendered moot. This is especially true in a matter pregnant with future controversies. A more recent appeal involving the same parties and the same subject matter is now pending in this court. The function of a court is to render judgment in actual controversies where the judgment can be carried into *595effect. The judgment appealed from in the instant ease having been complied with, no effective judgment could be rendered by this court. See 14 Ohio Jurisprudence (2d), 262, Section 196; Crum v. Public Utilities Com., 123 Ohio St., 55 and Overesch v. Campbell, 95 Ohio App., 359. The appeal is dismissed sua sponte.

Appeal dismissed.