Rice v. State

On the 25th of August, 1926, the mother of Veronica Smith made complaint before a magistrate at Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin, that Sherman Rice, herein called the defendant, “did unlawfully and car*183nally know and abuse” her daughter on July 21st of that year. Defendant was arrested and was bound over to the circuit court for trial. There appears to have been an examination before the magistrate, at which Veronica Smith testified at length, although the testimony was not returned to this court and the docket entries of the magistrate are silent as to the fact. October 9, 1926, the…