McGovern v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Separate proceedings by the United States against John McGovern and William McGovern to punish defendants for contempt for violating orders abating a liquor nuisance. Erom judgments in each proceeding, convicting of contempt, defendants bring error.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Separate proceedings by the United States against John McGovern and William McGovern to punish defendants for contempt for violating orders abating a liquor nuisance. Erom judgments in each proceeding, convicting of contempt, defendants bring error. Proceedings dismissed as to William McGovern, who died subsequent to the judgment, and judgment as to John McGovern affirmed in the first proceeding and reversed in the second.
1Opinion of the Court
EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Two writs of error are here prosecuted to review judgments punishing plaintiffs in error for contempt of court. Though prosecuted separately, they were presented and argued together and will be disposed of in a single opinion.
*74John and William McGovern were convicted of contempt for violating two orders made in certain pending equity proceedings instituted under and by virtue of title 2, § 22, of the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 314). Each was fined $1,000 and sentenced to imprisonment for one year in each contempt proceeding.
The first proceeding, known here…
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