Vogel v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eebob to review a judgment of the circuit court for Clark county: Chestee A. Fowleb, Judge. Writ of error to review conviction for rape and ten years’ sentence to the state reformatory.
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Eebob to review a judgment of the circuit court for Clark county: Chestee A. Fowleb, Judge. Writ of error to review conviction for rape and ten years’ sentence to the state reformatory. The defendants were jointly arraigned upon an information containing one count, which, omitting the formal parts, alleges as follows: “That on the 29th day of June, A. D. 1907, at said county, Matthew Yogel, Joseph Christman, Peter Christman, Anthony J. Christman, and Henry Yogel did, with force and .arms, in and upon one Anna Engelbretson, of the age of fourteen years and more, to wit, of the age of eighteen…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 5, 1909:
Barnes, J.
We are urged with much earnestness to bold that tbe evidence is insufficient to sustain a verdict of guilty, ■and that therefore tbe judgment of conviction should be reversed and tbe defendants discharged. Many considerations are called to our attention to support this view, and some of them are not wanting in force and persuasive power. The ■credibility of tbe testimony of the alleged victim, as well as that of the principal witnesses tending to corroborate her ■story, is vigorously assailed. It is asserted that tbe condition ■of tbe…
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