Defendant Who Abused The Judge

A prisoner on trial for breaking out of a jail and holding hostages chose to represent himself. Over twenty-one days he called the judge a dirty tyrannical old dog and worse, accused him of railroading him, and told him to go to hell and keep his mouth shut. The same judge waited until the trial ended, then found him guilty of contempt on eleven separate occasions and gave him one to two years for each, eleven to twenty-two years in all.