Spick v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EeboR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Bay-field county: John K. Parish, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error was informed against as having, on the 28th day of August in the year 1907, at the county of Bayfield, in the state of Wisconsin, feloniously, wilfully, and with his malice aforethought, killed and murdered Boni Lombard.
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EeboR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Bay-field county: John K. Parish, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error was informed against as having, on the 28th day of August in the year 1907, at the county of Bayfield, in the state of Wisconsin, feloniously, wilfully, and with his malice aforethought, killed and murdered Boni Lombard. He was in due form tried on such charge, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and duly sentenced to be punished by confinement at hard labor in the state prison at Waupun for the period of twenty years, the first day of such period to be solitary…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The place of the homicide was in a sparsely settled wild country in which the plaintiff in error and the' deceased lived. The latter was the sole occupant of a homestead claim, called the Morrison homestead, about a mile and *108.a half from the nearest neighbor. He .did a little farming, but spent his time, mainly, in hunting and fishing and entertaining persons who resorted to that region for the purpose of fishing. The deceased resided with his employer, one Barnes, who lived about a mile and a half from the Morrison homestead and did a farming, lumbering, saloon, and general store business.…
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