State v. Stang Tank Line

In Drewniak v. State ex rel. Jacquest (1942), 239 Wis. 475, 1 N. W. (2d) 899, we held that in Wisconsin trial courts do not have jurisdiction to impose sentences and then stay their execution. We quoted at length from the opinion of the court in Ex parte United States (1916), 242 U. S. 27, 37, 39, 37 Sup. Ct. 72, 61 L. Ed. 129, adopting the principle there announced, that if such right in the trial court was recognized the court would impair the constitutional division of power between the branches of government, for not only would the court be repealing legislative enactments setting…