State Ex Rel. Pulitzer Publishing Co. v. Coleman

Three original proceedings, growing out of the same subject matter, present identical questions for our decision. In No. 37053 — certiorari — the Pulitzer Publishing Company asks us to quash a judgment of the St. Louis Circuit Court finding it guilty of contempt and fining it $2,000. In cases numbered 37054 and 37055 petitioners Fitzpatrick and Coghlan seek release by habeascorpus from sentences of imprisonment imposed for the same alleged contempt. Judge Rowe, who tried the contempt proceedings, has died; but in No. 37,053, in which alone he was a party to the record, the cause has been…