Richards v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Vernon County. An information in due form was filed in tbe circuit court for Monroe county by tbe district attorney of that county, charging that on February 9, 1889, at said county, John T. Richards did feloniously kill and murder one John G. Mooney by stabbing him with a knife, with a premeditated design by Richards to effect Mooney’s -death. The place of trial was changed to Yernon county.
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ERROR to tbe Circuit Court for Vernon County. An information in due form was filed in tbe circuit court for Monroe county by tbe district attorney of that county, charging that on February 9, 1889, at said county, John T. Richards did feloniously kill and murder one John G. Mooney by stabbing him with a knife, with a premeditated design by Richards to effect Mooney’s -death. The place of trial was changed to Yernon county. The accused was tried on the information in the circuit court for Yernon county, in October 1890, and convicted of murder in the first degree, as charged in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 23, 1892:
LyoN, C. J.
1. The original complaint against plaintiff in error for the murder of Mooney was made to a justice of the peace by Lucinda J. Eichards, the wife of plaintiff in error, and mother of Mooney, the deceased. A warrant was issued by the justice on such complaint for the arrest of the accused, and he was afterwards arrested thereon and *176brought before tbe justice. He waived an. examination, and was Held for trial in tbe circuit court. Thereupon tbe district attorney filed tbe above-mentioned information, and the accused was arraigned in…
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