People v. Gard

This writ of error is prosecuted by Edward S. Gard to review the record of a proceeding in the Criminal Court, wherein said Gard was adjudged guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to imprisonment in the common jail of Cook county for a period of 60 days.

The abstract of the record is so informal, deficient and unintelligible as to make it necessary to have recourse to the record, and the judgment might well be affirmed because of the insufficiency of the abstract. We have, however, elected to examine the record itself and review the same upon a consideration of the oral argument of one of…