Ketchingman v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE RACINE CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant was convicted upon an indictment for adultery. The indictment contained two counts ; the first charged that “ on the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the city of Hacine, aforesaid,” the defendant “ did commit the crime of adultery with one Caroline White, the wife of one Orrin White, by then and there having carnal knowledge of the body of her, the said Caroline White,…
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ERROR TO THE RACINE CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant was convicted upon an indictment for adultery. The indictment contained two counts ; the first charged that “ on the first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the city of Hacine, aforesaid,” the defendant “ did commit the crime of adultery with one Caroline White, the wife of one Orrin White, by then and there having carnal knowledge of the body of her, the said Caroline White, lie, the said James Ketchingman, then and there being a married man, and having a lawful wife then alive, and she, the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
A majority of the court are of the opinion that the judgment of the circuit court in this ease must be affirmed. The several objections taken to the ruling of the circuit court as to the admission or rejection of certain testimony offered upon the trial, can bo conveniently considered in the order in which they are presented to us on the brief of the counsel for the plaintiff in error.
The plaintiff in error was indicted at the April term of the circuit court for Racine county, 1855, for committing the crime of adultery with one Caroline White. The indictment contains two…
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