CONTEMPT, § 39.15 — insufficiency of evidence to sustain conviction of bondsman for direct contempt. Evidence held insufficient to sustain conviction of professional bondsman for direct contempt in connection with his testimony before court as to identity of defendant he had signed bail for and which identity had been wilfully misrepresented by police officer in order to substitute outsider for real defendant, in absence of showing that bondsman lied when he made statement in question to court.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Opinion by JUSTICE SCANLAN.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed November 6, 1944; released for publication November 24, 1944.