State v. Dickinson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
REPORTED from the Circuit Court for Green County. The following statement of the case was originally prepared by Mr. Justice Cole as a part of his opinion: “ On the trial of this cause, questions of law arose, which, in the opinion of the circuit judge, were so important and doubtful as to require the decision of the supreme court upon them; and, the defendant desiring it, those questions have been reported by the judge for the decision of this court.
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REPORTED from the Circuit Court for Green County. The following statement of the case was originally prepared by Mr. Justice Cole as a part of his opinion: “ On the trial of this cause, questions of law arose, which, in the opinion of the circuit judge, were so important and doubtful as to require the decision of the supreme court upon them; and, the defendant desiring it, those questions have been reported by the judge for the decision of this court. “ This was a criminal information founded upon section 11, ch. 164, R. S., which reads as follows: ‘Every person who shall administer to any…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The first inquiry is, whether the declarations of deceased to Mary Erickson were admissible for the purpose of showing her intention, and as their scope and effect were restricted by the court. Wo are of opinion #that they were. They constituted a part of the res gestae, were contemporaneous with the main fact under consideration, and were so connected with it as to illustrate its character. 1 Greenl. Ev., *307§ 108. It was certainly competent to prove that tbe deceased went to the house of the defendant at the time it was charged in the information the abortion was produced. Upon the…
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