Francken v. State

It is earnestly argued by the attorneys representing the State that the Municipal Court Act of Brown County does not provide for a change of venue in the trial of a bastardy proceeding. Proceedings for change *427of venue are statutory in their origin, and where no statutory provision exists authorizing a change the right thereto is non-existent. It has been the settled law of this state since the case of Baker v. State, 56 Wis. 568, 14 N. W. 718, that a proceeding against a defendant for bastardy is neither a criminal nor a civil action, and that it is classed under the head of a special…