Flamme v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Rich-land county: George Clementson, Circuit Judge. The information charged Wesley A. Flamme with the’ crime of adultery committed with Mabel Banker, an unmarried woman, on May 22, 1919. In a separate count it charged Mabel Banker with the crime of fornication. The defendants, Wesley A. Flamme and Mabel Banker, were arrested -upon separate complaints in separate actions and separately held for trial.
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Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Rich-land county: George Clementson, Circuit Judge. The information charged Wesley A. Flamme with the’ crime of adultery committed with Mabel Banker, an unmarried woman, on May 22, 1919. In a separate count it charged Mabel Banker with the crime of fornication. The defendants, Wesley A. Flamme and Mabel Banker, were arrested -upon separate complaints in separate actions and separately held for trial. They were first jointly proceeded against by the district áttorney by the filing of one information in the circuit court. 'Mabel Banker claims…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The main questions presented for decision are whether or not the confession of Mabel Banker to the district attorney was competent evidence, and whether the court erred in refusing the defendants’ requests for separate trials.
The facts concerning the confession made to the district attorney by Mabel Banker disclose that she at that time was nineteen years of age; that she resided with her mother at their home in Richland Center; that the sheriff called at their house and asked her to accompany him to the office of the'district attorney in the courthouse; that her mother went with her, and…
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