Cornell v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eeboe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-nesha county: JaMes J. Dice, Circuit Judge. On November 19, 1891, tbe defendant resided with his wife and two children of their own and two of her children by former marriage, in indigent and destitute circumstances, at Oconomowoc. On that evening the defendant went to bed in one room with his two children, aged respectively six and four.
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Eeboe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Wau-nesha county: JaMes J. Dice, Circuit Judge. On November 19, 1891, tbe defendant resided with his wife and two children of their own and two of her children by former marriage, in indigent and destitute circumstances, at Oconomowoc. On that evening the defendant went to bed in one room with his two children, aged respectively six and four. Later the wife, together with a boarder, between whom and herself illicit relations, with the knowledge and consent of the defendant, are claimed to have existed, went to bed in another room. In the…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. Several errors are assigned upon the selection of the jury, which are classifiable into: (a) That the court, after 270 jurors had been drawn from the list supplied by the jury commissioners, ordered the sheriff to summon thirty from the county at large for the purposes of this case; (b) that the court denied defendant’s challenge to several jurors who said upon their voir dvre that they had formed an opinion that a murder had been committed, but not as to the responsibility of any one for it; (c) that the court overruled defendant’s challenge to jurors who had been summoned upon special…
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