Opinion
Gen. No. 9,272. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed November 3, 1941
CONTEMPT, § 76 — term of imprisonment reduced. Where defendants were sentenced for term of six months without alternative fine for violation of strike injunction, sentence was reduced to three months, although evidence clearly preponderated in favor of finding of guilty by lower court which is invested with large discretion in enforcing obedience to its mandate, when it appeared that defendants had been law-abiding citizens prior to commission of offense, and were under a strain at time thereof, since greater sentence would keep defendants away from their work and families unduly, and the additional three months would result in more harm than good.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; Hon. LAWRENCE E. STONE, presiding.
Reversed and remanded with directions. Heard in this court at January term, 1941.
Edward Pree, for appellants;
A.M. Fitzgerald, for appellees.
"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed November 3, 1941.