People v. Vogel

Mr. Presiding Justice Burke

delivered the opinion of the court.

Frank Siegal sued out a writ of error in the Supreme Court to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county, sentencing him to ten days in the county jail for an alleged direct criminal contempt of that court. The Supreme Court decided that no- fairly debatable constitutional question was raised which-would give it jurisdiction on direct appeal, and transferred the case. (People v. Siegal, 400 Ill. 208.)

The order of the criminal court reads:

“This matter coming on to be heard before this Court, and the defendant, Frank…