The People v. Schultz

The plaintiff in error, Herbert Schultz, was adjudged guilty of direct contempt of court for his refusal to testify in a criminal case on trial in the criminal court of Cook county, wherein one Walter Appelt was the defendant. He was sentenced to go days in jail and sued out a writ of error to review that judgment in the Appellate Court for the First District. The Appellate Court affirmed the order of the trial judge.

Schultz, a man of 28 years of age, residing in Stewart-son, Illinois, was called as a witness for the People, in the Appelt case. He had theretofore, on March 12, 1941, signed a…