Dillon v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ekeob to review a judgment of' the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BelueN, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree in the circuit court for Racine county in November, 1907, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at Waupun for the term of seventeen years, pursuant to the judgment of conviction.
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Ekeob to review a judgment of' the circuit court for Racine county: E. B. BelueN, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree in the circuit court for Racine county in November, 1907, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison at Waupun for the term of seventeen years, pursuant to the judgment of conviction. To review such judgment he brings the case to this court on a writ of error and makes the following assignments of error: (1) The refusal of the state to call the eye-witness Plans Gibson to…
1Opinion of the CourtBabwes, J.
1. The defendant contends that the court, upon his request, should have directed the district attorney to call and examine one Hans Gibson, an eye-witness to the transaction; failing in this, that the court should have called said Gibson to the stand, to the end that the jury might have the benefit, of the evidence of all the eye-witnesses to the homicide before the state rested its ease. The denial .of the requests made to this end is assigned as error.
The rule requiring the state to call eye-witnesses in a homicide case became well established in the English system of jurisprudence at a…
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