People v. Cochrane

The criminal court of Cook county adjudged the plaintiff in error, Robert J. Cochrane, guilty of contempt of the court committed in open court in refusing to answer interrogatories which he had refused to answer before the grand jury and again refused in open court to answer, and committed him to the county jail for a term of ten days or until released by due process of law. He sued out a writ of error from this court and has assigned errors upon the record questioning the legality and validity of the judgment upon constitutional and other grounds.

The record returned in obedience to the writ…