Secor v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Judge. The defendant was prosecuted and convicted before the municipal court of Milwaukee county of the crime of embezzlement, and brings his writ of error to reverse the sentence. The original information was in two counts.
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Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: B. F. DuNwiddie, Judge. The defendant was prosecuted and convicted before the municipal court of Milwaukee county of the crime of embezzlement, and brings his writ of error to reverse the sentence. The original information was in two counts. The first count charged that on January 3, 1899, at Milwaukee county, “the defendant, Leroy W. Secor, was then and there a servant, agent, and employee of the Goodrich Transportation Company, a corporation then and there duly created, organized, and existing under and by virtue of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The errors claimed will be considered in their order as argued.
1. It is said that it was error to allow the filing of the amended information. The ground taken is. that the proceeding by information is purely statutory, and that there is no provision allowing the filing of an amended information, and hence that an information cannot be amended in a material part any more than an indictment can be amended. Allen v. State, 5 Wis. 329. The particular .parts of the amended information which are objected to are the statement that the defendant was the cashier of the Goodrich Transportation…
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