Bonner v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Henry M. Shepard, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtMoran, P. J.
Bonner was fined $25 in the Superior Court for alleged contempt in disobeying an order of the court commanding him to appear before a notary public to testify as a witness.
The imposition of a fine for contempt, is the rendering of judgment in a criminal case, and the mode provided by law for obtaining a review in such a case is by writ of error and not by appeal; but as errors have been assigned on the record which has been filed here, and as counsel for the prosecution have argued the errors thus assigned on the merits in their brief, we may treat the case as here on writ of error, and…
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