State v. Leicham
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ON EXCEPTIONS from the Circuit Court for Scmfc County. An information was filed in the circuit court by the district attorney, under sec. 27, ch. 165, E. S. (Tay.
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ON EXCEPTIONS from the Circuit Court for Scmfc County. An information was filed in the circuit court by the district attorney, under sec. 27, ch. 165, E. S. (Tay. Stats., 1844, § 30), charging that the defendant had committed the crime of larceny, by fraudulently converting to his own use three seed-sowers or cultivators, of the value of $225, the property of the copartnership of Van Brunt, Barber & Co., which machines came into his possession by virtue of his employment by that firm as its agent to sell the same. The information contains a second count under the same statute, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
I. It is claimed that there was no preliminary examination of the defendant for the crime charged in the information, and hence, that the district attorney had no au*572thority to file the information, and that the defendant was illegally tried under it for the offense charged therein. The only ruling of the court which presents this question, is the denial of the motion in arrest of judgment founded in part upon such alleged absence of & preliminary examination.
Before the information was filed, a complaint in writing under oath was made to a justice of the peace against the defendant, charging…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Rindskopf v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
- State v. GummerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1868
- Williams Mower & Reaper Co. v. RaynorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
3Cited by32 opinions
- People v. TalbotCalifornia Supreme Court · 1934
- Hack v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1910
- Porath v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
- Thies v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1922
- In re GaltCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1903
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