Pamanet v. State

The challenge here is to the constitutionality of the court, district attorney and jury involved in the trial of the defendant on a serious felony charge.(1) As to the trial court.

The defendant contends that the establishment by the legislature of a joint Shawano-Menominee county court 1 violates art. VII, sec. 2, Wisconsin Constitution. 2 Defendant’s counsel would have us read into the constitutional provision a prohibition against the establishment of county or inferior courts serving more than one county. Instead we have interpreted this provision to give broad powers to the legislature in…