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EATON v. CITY OF TULSA

No. 73-5925.

415 U.S. 697 (1974)

94 S.Ct. 1228

39 L.Ed.2d 693

EATON v. CITY OF TULSA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 25, 1974.

PER CURIAM.

In answering a question on cross-examination at his trial, in the Municipal Court of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for violating a municipal ordinance, petitioner referred to an alleged assailant as "chicken shit." In consequence he was prosecuted and convicted under an information that charged him with "direct contempt," in violation of another Tulsa ordinance, "by his insolent behavior during open court and in the presence of [the judge],

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