State v. Murphy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Repoeted from tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county:: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. On February 1, 1904, an information was filed against the-defendant charging that on tbe 17th day of June, 1899, be,, then being an alderman of tbe city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, solicited and received from Oscar F. Davis $80 for tbe purpose of inducing accused to vote in favor of a tben pending-ordinance allowing said Davis’s firm to lay a sidetrack across certain streets in said city of…
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Repoeted from tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county:: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. On February 1, 1904, an information was filed against the-defendant charging that on tbe 17th day of June, 1899, be,, then being an alderman of tbe city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, solicited and received from Oscar F. Davis $80 for tbe purpose of inducing accused to vote in favor of a tben pending-ordinance allowing said Davis’s firm to lay a sidetrack across certain streets in said city of Milwaukee. After reversal of’ tbe first conviction (124 Wis. 635, 102 N. W. 1087) tbe action was again brought to…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
*206In an effort to reach certain crimes which involved complicity of two or more persons and, ordinarily, could not be proved without the testimony of some of those concerned, Congress had enacted that no such testimony “shall be given in evidence, or in any manner used against such party or witness,” etc. Notwithstanding this statute, Oounselman, a grain dealer, refused to answer to1 a grand jury whether he had obtained any rebates or cut rates from railroads, also whether he knew of any such favor being allowed any shipper in Chicago. The supreme court of the United States sustained him in…
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