Keenan v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE GRANT CIRCUIT COURT. The plaintiff in error was indicted, at the April Term, 1857, of the Grant circuit court for murder in the first degree, of one Peter Fagan, to which he pleaded not guilty. The venue was changed, on the application of the defendant, to Iowa county, where the cause was tried at the March Term, 1858, and the defendant found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree.
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ERROR TO THE GRANT CIRCUIT COURT. The plaintiff in error was indicted, at the April Term, 1857, of the Grant circuit court for murder in the first degree, of one Peter Fagan, to which he pleaded not guilty. The venue was changed, on the application of the defendant, to Iowa county, where the cause was tried at the March Term, 1858, and the defendant found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. Several exceptions were taken on the trial, which are made the subject of review here. From the bill of exceptions it appears that on the evening of the 22d of December, 1856, the defendant, the…
1Opinion of the Court
*136 By the Court,
Whiton, C. J.
It appears that the plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, and on the trial of the indictment convicted of manslaughter in the first degree.
The errors relied upon by him to reverse the judgment, are, 1st, the admission of proof of his confessions while under duress ; 2d, that one of the jurors who sat upon the jury was incompetent; 3d, that two of the jurors separated from their fellows during the trial for the purpose of attending to their private business; 4th, that the judge before whom the case was tried, erred in the instructions which he gave the jury…
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