Dietz v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR, to review a judgment of tbe circuit court for Sawyer county: A. H. Rexd, Judge. John F. Dietz, bis wife, Hattie, and bis son, Leslie, were prosecuted, for tlie murder of one Oscar Harp, aud upon the trial of the case before the circuit court for Sawyer county in 'May, 1911, the wife and son were acquitted and John F. Dietz was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse that sentence.
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ERROR, to review a judgment of tbe circuit court for Sawyer county: A. H. Rexd, Judge. John F. Dietz, bis wife, Hattie, and bis son, Leslie, were prosecuted, for tlie murder of one Oscar Harp, aud upon the trial of the case before the circuit court for Sawyer county in 'May, 1911, the wife and son were acquitted and John F. Dietz was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse that sentence. It appears that in October, 1910, and for ten years or more previous to that time, John F. Dietz lived with his family upon…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNsnow, C. J.
Tbe plaintiff in error (hereinafter called tbe defendant) claims error (1) in tbe admission of evidence, (2) in tbe instructions to tbe jury, and (3) in tbe denial of a new trial, and these claims will be discussed in tbe order named.
1. Tbe evidence in tbe present case disclosed a most re*466markable transaction, — one which would seem almost incredible in a state where law and order have been long established, were the evidence anything less than conclusive. A citizen of the state, a man of at least some property and substance, a man with a wife and family of children, apparently a man of…
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- O'Boyle v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1901
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