Proper v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for WaxücesTia, County. The plaintiff in error was tried in the circuit court for Waukesha county upon an information in two counts; the first charging him with rape committed on the person of Clara O’Brien, a female child, under the age of twelve years, under S. & B. Ann.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for WaxücesTia, County. The plaintiff in error was tried in the circuit court for Waukesha county upon an information in two counts; the first charging him with rape committed on the person of Clara O’Brien, a female child, under the age of twelve years, under S. & B. Ann. Stats, sec. 4382; and the second, with having, on the 16th of January, 1892, and on divers other days and times between that day and the 21st of March in the same jmar, feloniously assaulted Clara O’Brien, she then and there being a female child under the age of twelve years, to wit, of the age of…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
1. During the trial many questions put to witnesses, particularly the prosecutrix, were objected to by the defendant’s counsel on the ground that they were leading, and several assignments of error rest on this ground only. Prominent among these were the questions mentioned in the statement to the effect: “ Did he do anything with you that you thought he ought not to? Did it hurt any? Was there anything left when he got away from .you? Was it wet between your legs’? What about that, if you remember? What else did he do — about taking it in your hand,— anything about that? ” Leading questions…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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