Finkel v. McCook

The petitioner has been adjudged guilty of criminal contempt of court and has been committed to the City Prison for thirty days. By stipulation it was agreed that the sufficiency of the mandate was not to be questioned. The order under review recites that in response to questions put to him before the grand jury, “ the defendant answered evasively, vaguely, contradictorily, contemptuously, contumaciously and untruthfully as appears more fully from the minutes of said proceeding before the Grand Jury marked People’s Exhibit I herein, and defendant was guilty of conduct and gave testimony which…