The People v. Sherwin

On February 10, 1932, plaintiff in error, Lionel A. Sherwin, was ordered committed to the county jail of Cook county for a term of ninety days for an alleged direct contempt of the municipal court of Chicago before the Hon. Edgar A. Jonas, a judge of that court. This contempt of court is recited in the order to have occurred on December 9, 1931. The judgment of the municipal court having been affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District, the cause is now here on writ of error to that court.

The. commitment order recites that plaintiff in error, an attorney at law, appeared for the…