Legal Opinion

Smits v. State

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided March 14, 1911PublishedCited by 9 opinions

EbbOR to review a judgment of tbe municipal court for tbe eastern district of Waubesba county: C. E. Armih, Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtWmsnow, C. J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of rape upon a' female under the age of fourteen years in violation of the provisions of sec. 4382, Stats. (1898), and sentenced to imprisonment for thirty years.

Most of the errors claimed relate to rulings upon the trial and they will be briefly considered in their order.

Two practicing physicians, who made examination of the person of the complaining witness after the alleged rape, were allowed to give expert testimony in the face of objection that they had not qualified themselves to testify as medical experts, and these rulings are assigned…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Loose v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
  2. Hannon v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
  3. Miske v. ThomWisconsin Supreme Court · 1910

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Bertrang v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1971
  2. Bridges v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1945
  3. Love v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1974
  4. McGinty v. Brotherhood of Railway TrainmenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1917
  5. State v. AlbersSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1928

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