People v. Thor

delivered tire opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order that found defendant guilty of direct criminal contempt and sentenced him to four months confinement in the Chicago House of Correction. Three issues are presented. However, the one decisive of this appeal is whether tire trial judge erred when, before entering the contempt order, he heard evidence of what the defendant did outside the court’s presence before and after the in-court conduct for which he was found criminally contemptuous.

On August 12, 1970, defendant and a number of University of Illinois students were in court…