Quinn v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eeeoe to review a judgment of tbe county court of Wal-worth county: Chaeles B. Rogees, Judge. The plaintiff in error prosecutes a writ of error to review a judgment sentencing him to confinement in the state reformatory at Green Bay for the crime of assault with the intent to commit rape upon one Agnes Secquist. The crime is alleged to have been committed on the 22d day of February, 1912, in the city of Whitewater.
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Eeeoe to review a judgment of tbe county court of Wal-worth county: Chaeles B. Rogees, Judge. The plaintiff in error prosecutes a writ of error to review a judgment sentencing him to confinement in the state reformatory at Green Bay for the crime of assault with the intent to commit rape upon one Agnes Secquist. The crime is alleged to have been committed on the 22d day of February, 1912, in the city of Whitewater. Agnes Secquist was eighteen years of age in June, 1911. She had resided at La Crosse with her father up to August, 1909, when she had been committed to the Industrial School for…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The defendant contends that the evidence fails to establish the fact of his guilt of the crime charged in the information, and that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of not guilty. The grounds for this contention are that the evidence affirmatively shows that the defendant did not assault Agnes Secquist as alleged, and that the defendant and she, from the time they met on the evening in question, had an understanding by which she consented to sexual intercourse, and hence the essential elements of the crime were not proven. The finding of the jury that the defendant committed an…
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