People v. Tomlinson

Tomlinson, defendant in the trial court, on March 23, 1938, in response to a summons appeared in the municipal court of Chicago to answer an information which charged him with a violation of the traffic code of the city of Chicago. The case was continued from time to time and the record fails to disclose what disposition was finally made of it.

May 3, 1938, the court on its own motion found that defendant on April 7 prior thereto, was guilty of a direct contempt of court, and sentenced him to the county jail for a term of 10 days. He seeks by this writ to reverse that order.

So far as the…