Perkins v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Olark County. The plaintiff in error, Hugh Perkvns, was tried, upon an information charging him with the murder of one Isaac Meddaugh, and was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. The testimony given on the trial was conflicting.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Olark County. The plaintiff in error, Hugh Perkvns, was tried, upon an information charging him with the murder of one Isaac Meddaugh, and was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. The testimony given on the trial was conflicting. That on behalf of the defense tended to show that on the day previous to the homicide there had been a quarrel between Meddaugh and Perkvns at the saw-mill operated by the latter; that Meddaugh, who was a larger and more powerful man than Perkins, had then made a violent assault upon Perkins, and had only been prevented from…
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
The plaintiff in error was tried on an information for murder in the first degree, and was convicted of manslaughter in- the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at Waupun for the term of five years. A motion for a new trial, on behalf of the plaintiff in error, was denied pro forma, and a motion in arrest was denied, and also a petition for a new trial based on the same grounds as herein assigned for error. The case comes to this court on writ of error and bill of exceptions settled and signed by the judge.
*555The first error assigned and considered in the brief of…
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