Opinion
Gen. No. 43,115. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed November 6, 1944 Released for publication November 24, 1944
CONTEMPT, § 39.15 — insufficiency of evidence to sustain conviction of bondsman for direct contempt. Evidence held insufficient to sustain conviction of professional bondsman for direct contempt in connection with his testimony before court as to identity of defendant he had signed bail for and which identity had been wilfully misrepresented by police officer in order to substitute outsider for real defendant, in absence of showing that bondsman lied when he made statement in question to court.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. LEON EDELMAN, Judge, presiding.
Judgment order, so far as it relates to John H. Coleman, plaintiff in error, reversed. Heard in the second division, first district, this court at the June term, 1944.
Prescott, Burroughs Taylor and Clayton Weller, for plaintiff in error;
Patrick B. Prescott, Jr. and Joseph E. Clayton, Jr., of counsel;
Thomas J. Courtney, State's attorney, for defendant in error; Edward E. Wilson, John T. Gallagher, Melvin S. Rembe and Joseph A. Pope, Assistant state's attorneys, of counsel.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed November 6, 1944; released for publication November 24, 1944.