Pollock v. State

Wusrsnow, C. J.-

The plaintiff in error was charged with the murder of one Frank Tomlinson, September 6, 1906, at Milwaukee, and was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, and prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment which followed his conviction. The killing by shooting with a pistol was admitted, and the claim was that the defendant acted in self-defense.

The evidence shows that the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was at the time of the homicide an unmarried man nearly fifty years of age; that for about three years he had been rooming at 190 Fifth…