Stoddard v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Rich-land county: George ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. On September 14, 1900, plaintiff in error was convicted, in the circuit court for Richland county, of stealing a horse, a buggy, and a harness, the property of one Erotus Chandler. The information charges that he on June 30, 1906, committed this offense, in violation of sec. 4416, Stats.
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ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Rich-land county: George ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. On September 14, 1900, plaintiff in error was convicted, in the circuit court for Richland county, of stealing a horse, a buggy, and a harness, the property of one Erotus Chandler. The information charges that he on June 30, 1906, committed this offense, in violation of sec. 4416, Stats. (1898). There was a motion for a new trial, and a motion in arrest of judgment for error committed on the trial. Both of these motions the court denied. The accused was sentenced to confinement in the state…
1Opinion of the CourtSibbecKBR, J.
The evidentiary facts were sucb tbat tbe jury were justified in inferring tbat plaintiff in error took the horse and buggy at ,the time alleged without permission or authority from the owner, and drove the horse from Rich-land Center into the country to the place in the public highway where the buggy and harness were found some time shortly after 11 o’clock that night.
It is urged that the evidence of the sheriff and another witness, to the effect that the plaintiff in error made statements at the time of ,his arrest and after confinement in the county jail admitting that he took this rig into…
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