Gerke v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted under sec. 4399, Stats. (1898), of burning the dwelling house of Henry Detjen in the nighttime when there were human beings therein, and was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at Waupun.

A number of exceptions to the rulings of the court upon the trial are urged as grounds for reversal of the judgment, but it must be sufficient to say that we have found no serious or prejudicial error in any of the rulings complained of, and that if there were nó other questions in the case the judgment would be at once affirmed.

The…