The People v. Sheridan

Plaintiff in error, John David Sheridan, Jr., (herein called defendant,) was by an order of the criminal court of Cook county adjudged to be guilty of a direct criminal contempt of court and sentenced to confinement in the county jail of that county for ten days. The judgment of the criminal court was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District. A writ of error has been sued out of this court.

On October 20, 1930, the State’s attorney of Cook county filed in the criminal court of that county a petition in which it was alleged that defendant appeared as a witness before the grand…