State ex rel. Gaster v. Whitcher
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EeeoR to review an order and judgment of tbe circuit court for Kenosha county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error, by an examining magistrate, in due form of law, was held for trial at the circuit court for Kenosha county, Wisconsin, upon two charges of criminal bribery.
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EeeoR to review an order and judgment of tbe circuit court for Kenosha county: E. B. BeldeN, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error, by an examining magistrate, in due form of law, was held for trial at the circuit court for Kenosha county, Wisconsin, upon two charges of criminal bribery. One was alleged in the complaint to have been committed June 25, 1900; the other July 2, 1900. The particulars of the charge in the first count differ from those in the second only in the amount of money alleged to have been paid for official influence and action. The description of the offense of June 25, 1900,…
1Opinion of the CourtMahshaul, J.
Tbe question before us for decision is not whether tbe examining magistrate committed jurisdictional error in deciding that a proper case was presented to him upon tbe complaint and tbe evidence for bolding tbe accused for trial, but whether tbe court commissioner, in tbe habeas corpus action, committed jurisdictional error in deciding that tbe examining magistrate did not commit such error. That is a situation evidently not comprehended by counsel upon either side, who probably shaped their course in tbe light of State ex rel. McCaslin v. Smith, 65 Wis. 93, 26 N. W. 258, and Wright v.…
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