O'MALLEY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 12067, 12116, 12075, 12117, 12087, 12118.

128 F.2d 676 (1942)

O'MALLEY v. UNITED STATES. PENDERGAST v. SAME. McCORMACK v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 1, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph M. Russell and John G. Madden, both of Kansas City, Mo. (James P. Aylward, R. R. Brewster, James E. Burke, Brewster, Brewster & Brewster, and Madden, Freeman & Madden, all of Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellants O'Malley and Pendergast.

William S. Hogsett and Richard K. Phelps, both of Kansas City, Mo., special counsel and as amici curiae, for appellee.

Before GARDNER, THOMAS, and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.


GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from judgments convicting appellants, Robert Emmett O'Malley, Thomas J. Pendergast, and A. L. McCormack, of criminal contempt. A somewhat extended statement of the facts leading up to and involved in the conduct held to have been contemptuous will be necessary.

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