Thornton v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eeboe to review a judgment of the municipal court of the eastern district of Waukesha county: D. S. Tullar, Judge. A writ of error to review conviction and sentence for assault with intent to commit rape.
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Eeboe to review a judgment of the municipal court of the eastern district of Waukesha county: D. S. Tullar, Judge. A writ of error to review conviction and sentence for assault with intent to commit rape. The testimony of the complaining witness was generally to the effect that as she was going home from church in the city of Waukesha, about 9 o’clock in the evening of March 2, 1902, she was accosted by plaintiff in error with the request that he might escort her home, which she repudiated indignantly; whereupon, after a few words, he made improper proposals to her, and, seizing her, threw…
1Opinion of the Court
Dor>gtE, J.
1. Tbe first error assigned is upon admitting evidence of comparison witb tbe tracks left in tbe snow near tbe .place of tbe assault of tbe shoe of tbe accused, wbicb be gave to tbe deputy sheriff upon request after bis arrest. Tbe objection urged is that thereby results an invasion of personal rights guaranteed by two clauses' of our constitution, namely, sec. 8, art. I: No person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself;” and sec. 11, art. I: “Tbe right of tbe people to be secure in their persons, bouses, papers, and effects against unreasonable…
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