Pugh v. Winter

The petitioner, an attorney, was found guilty of a criminal contempt committed in the presence of the respondent, a justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York.

The petition is in the nature of a writ of certiorari to review this determination and seeks to have the order and warrant of commitment annulled.

*96The practice for review of a finding of criminal contempt in a civil proceeding was by certiorari in instances where the alleged contemptuous acts were wholly within the knowledge of the justice making the order and by appeal where such acts were established by independent…