Miller v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Taylor •county: John K. Parish, Circuit Judge. The plaintiffs in error were, in due form, charged with the •offense of murder in the first degree, in that they, on the 18th day of March, 1906, at the town of McKinley in Taylor county, this state, feloniously assaulted Thomas McGowan with premeditated design to take his life and by such assault •effected such design.
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Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Taylor •county: John K. Parish, Circuit Judge. The plaintiffs in error were, in due form, charged with the •offense of murder in the first degree, in that they, on the 18th day of March, 1906, at the town of McKinley in Taylor county, this state, feloniously assaulted Thomas McGowan with premeditated design to take his life and by such assault •effected such design. Such proceedings were in due form had that they were found guilty by the verdict of a jury, and subsequently were in form sentenced as the law seemed to re•quire. The facts as…
1Opinion of the Court
*61The following opinion was filed February 16, 1909:
Marshall, J.
These matters were undisputed upon the evidence, or substantially so: In the evening of March 18, 1906, Thomas McGowan, accompanied by several other persons, laborers in a logging camp, in the vicinity of the home of the plaintiff in error Stephen Bromley, for whom plaintiff in error Belle Miller was housekeeper, visited Bromley’s house. Bromley, in addition to working at times in the woods, conducted a small farm, and kept liquor, cigars, and tobacco for sale. He knew of McGowan and regarded him as an undesirable fellow to have at…
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