Craig v. Baird

KOSCINSKI, District Judge.

Separate writs'of habeas corpus were issued by this court on individual applications of Pearl Craig and Max Gazan, whom we will refer to hereafter as petitioners, on representations that they were deprived of their constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment at a contempt of court hearing in the Circuit Court for Wayne County, for disobeying an injunction issued by that court, involving claimed unlawful acts as pickets during a strike called by two labor unions.

Pearl Craig received a sentence of fifteen days in the county jail and a fine of $150, and Max Gazan was…