In re Mead

Certiorari to review proceedings in which Jesse Mead, a police officer, was adjudged guilty of contempt of recorder’s court of Detroit. Certain persons were taken into custody about 8 o’clock p. m. *481February 8, 1922, by the police department of that city. They were held at a station of which Mead was in, charge at the time in question. No formal charge or complaint had been made against them or any of them. The minutes at the station showed that each of them was held for the reasons: “disorderly ;person, gaming, investigation.” About 11 o’clock that evening, on behalf of such persons, Judge…