Paulson v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Buffalo county: E. W. Hel:ms, Circuit Judge. Writ of error to conviction and sentence of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the “defendant,” of murder in the first degree, for the murder of one Mary Seldon at the town of Pepin on June 16, 1898. The general course of events, as claimed by the prosecution, was substantially as follows: On the date named, Thomas Seldon, a farmer, residing about two miles from Pepin,…
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Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Buffalo county: E. W. Hel:ms, Circuit Judge. Writ of error to conviction and sentence of the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the “defendant,” of murder in the first degree, for the murder of one Mary Seldon at the town of Pepin on June 16, 1898. The general course of events, as claimed by the prosecution, was substantially as follows: On the date named, Thomas Seldon, a farmer, residing about two miles from Pepin, left borne to attend a veterans’ reunion at Pepin, together with all bis family except bis sixteen-year old daughter Mary,…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. The first branch of the contention of plaintiff in error is that the evidence was not sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt either of the three elements of the alleged crime — the corpus delicti, the identity of the body, nor defendant’s commission of the crime. It is neither necessary nor seemly for us to express the conclusions which, as individuals, we might have reached from a consideration of all this evidence. It is immaterial whether any member of the court might or might not have been convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of all or any of these elements of the crime *95charge…
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