Hallinan

Petition for. writ of review of an order of the Superior Court of Kings County adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt of court. The petitioner is an attorney, duly licensed to practice law in all the courts of this state. On the ninth day of July 1925, he was engaged in the trial of a criminal case in said Superior Court, before the respondent judge thereof. In said action he represented one of four defendants who were jointly on trial in said court. The attorneys representing the other defendants in said action were Messrs. Covert, Brown, Pryor, and Bussell. A witness by the name of Mrs. Edith Jewett was being examined by Mr. Higgins, representing the prosecution. The commitment shows that "the following proceedings were had in said court in the course of said trial and were the basis upon 'which said judgment of contempt was made by said court:

Prom the foregoing statement .of the proceedings, it appears that petitioner had interposed an objection to a question asked of the witness Mrs. Jewett. He then proceeded to make an argument in support of the objection. The court directed him to make his objection and get a ruling upon it, but that it did not want any further…