People v. Wilcox

Plaintiff in error, Katherine K. Wilcox, prosecutes this writ of error to review a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County fining her $25 for an alleged direct contempt of court. Although the People raise the question of our jurisdiction on direct appeal, we think it manifest, from an examination of the record presented, that the order appealed from constitutes an invasion of plaintiff in error’s constitutional rights of due process and equal protection of the law.

The contempt proceeding arose during the course of a hearing in a chancery suit initiated by one Adaline C. Smallwood, who,…