PER CURIAM.
Writ of certiorari was granted to review an order of the St. Paul municipal court summarily holding relator in contempt of court and sentencing him to a term of 90 days in the workhouse. We reverse and hold that as a matter of law relator's acts were not contemptuous.
On May 1, 1972, relator, whose wife had been subpoenaed as a witness in a simple assault case scheduled for trial that morning, appeared in the anteroom to the chambers of the judge...
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