Case ID: ill-app_228/html/0610-03.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Presiding Justice MeSurely", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois, defendant in error, v. Charles Fitzmorris, plaintiff in error.
    Gen. No. 27,494.
    Contempt proceedings for remarks made by the chief of police of Chicago concerning proceedings pending in court. Judgment of guilty. Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph B. David, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1922.
    Reversed.
    Opinion filed December 11, 1922.
    Winston, Strawn & Shaw and James W. Breen, for plaintiff in error; Edward W. Everett and Edward G. Ince, of counsel. Robert E. Crowe, for defendant in error; Clarence S. Darrow and George W. Miller, amici curies.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice MeSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.