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PEOPLE v. KENNEDY

Gen. No. 48,892.

43 Ill. App.2d 299 (1963)

193 N.E.2d 464

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerome Kennedy, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

October 14, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay A. Schiller, of Chicago, for appellant.

Daniel P. Ward, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Marvin E. Aspen, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BURMAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, Jerome Kennedy, was found guilty of contempt of court for striking his seventeen-year-old stepdaughter after having previously been admonished orally by the court that he would be held in contempt of court should he molest or threaten her. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months unless "he sooner purges himself or unless sooner discharged...

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