State v. Dingman

The following opinion was filed October 7, 1941:

Íritz, J.

On October 10, 1935, the appellant, Elmer Dingman, was found guilty of murder in the first degree on a trial by jury in the circuit court for Wood county, Circuit Judge Byron B. Park, presiding. The charge was based on the murder at about 3 a. m. on August 5, 1933, of Police Officer Beell, while he was investigating a burglary which was being committed by four men at the office of a brewery at Marshfield. Judge Park denied a motion for a new trial made by Dingman before judgment was entered; and subsequently on March 1, 1937, likewise…