Johnson v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. 0. Brazes, Judge. The accused, John S. Jolmson, was charged with the highest degree of criminal homicide.
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Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. 0. Brazes, Judge. The accused, John S. Jolmson, was charged with the highest degree of criminal homicide. He was in due form found guilty by the jury of the crime of murder in the second degree, and was thereupon sentenced to be punished by confinement at hard labor in the state prison at Waupun, Wisconsin, for the period of fourteen years, suitable provision according fo law being made for solitary confinement. He was committed accordingly and was at the time of suing out the writ, and still is, serving his time. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
On the 10th day of August, 1904, the accused resided at a boarding house in the city of Milwaukee *148in which there was a saloon. He owned a revolver to the knowledge of the keeper of the house. He procured it some time prior to his residence in Milwaukee and while he was temporarily staying in Chicago, and carried the same in the latter place by permission of the police because, as he claimed, he had been threatened with and feared personal violence by members of a labor organization who conceived his business methods to be antagonistic to their interests. His residence in Milwaukee was of a…
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