In re Schuster

Lyon, O. J.

At the September term, 1890, of the Sauk county circuit court the petitioner, August Sohuster, was tried and convicted on an information charging that on February 7, 1890, being armed with a dangerous weapon, he feloniously assaulted one Rosa Sackman with intent to kill and murder her. The court sentenced him to imprisonment in the state prison “ for not less than one nor more than fifteen years.” The sentence is in the form prescribed by sec. 4733, R. S., as amended by ch. 390, Laws of 1889 (S. & B. Ann. Stats, sec. 4733); that is, it is a general or indeterminate sentepce. The…