Stuart v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
At the May term, 1840, of the Circuit Court of Cook county, the Hon. John Pearson presiding, the following entry was made of record: “The clerk will enter a rule, and let the same be served on the said William Stuart, to show cause, by two o’clock P. M., the eighth day of May, why he, the said Stuart, ought not to be fined or imprisoned, or both, for publishing, in the Chicago Daily American, on May 7th, A. D. 1840, a contemptuous article of and concerning the jury and…
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At the May term, 1840, of the Circuit Court of Cook county, the Hon. John Pearson presiding, the following entry was made of record: “The clerk will enter a rule, and let the same be served on the said William Stuart, to show cause, by two o’clock P. M., the eighth day of May, why he, the said Stuart, ought not to be fined or imprisoned, or both, for publishing, in the Chicago Daily American, on May 7th, A. D. 1840, a contemptuous article of and concerning the jury and Circuit Court of Cook county, while sitting in relation to the trial of John Stone, charged with murder, while the said trial…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, Justice
The record in this cause shows a proceeding instituted by the Cook Circuit Court, against tire plaintiff in error, as editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily American, for an alleged contempt, in publishing an article in that paper, supposed to reflect upon the Court and jury, whilst engaged in trying a case of murder pending therein, at the May term, 1840.
The proceedings were commenced in the usual way, by a rule upon the plaintiff in error to show cause, &c., and interrogatories duly propounded, which were answered, and he adjudged to pay a fine of $100, and the costs.
Various errors are…
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