Soquet v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EEEOE to the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is stated in the opinion. To the point that the opinion of an expert witness must be founded upon personal experience and not upon what he has read, they cited Comm. v. Bich, 14 Gray, 335; Boyle v. State, 57 "Wis. 479; State v. Klinger, 46 Mo. 228; Caleb v. State, 39 Miss. 722; Russell v. State, 53 id. 368; Luning v. State, 2 Pin. 284, 288. They contended, inter alia, that an expert may be competent although his knowledge…
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EEEOE to the Circuit Court for Brown County. The case is stated in the opinion. To the point that the opinion of an expert witness must be founded upon personal experience and not upon what he has read, they cited Comm. v. Bich, 14 Gray, 335; Boyle v. State, 57 "Wis. 479; State v. Klinger, 46 Mo. 228; Caleb v. State, 39 Miss. 722; Russell v. State, 53 id. 368; Luning v. State, 2 Pin. 284, 288. They contended, inter alia, that an expert may be competent although his knowledge is derived from study, without experience or observation. Bell’s Expert Testimony, 12; Lawson’s Expert Evi. 210;…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 8, 1888:
Orton, J.
The information charged the plaintiff in error with having murdered his wife, Esperance Soquet, on the 13th day of June, 1873, by poisoning, and the trial was had in April, 1SS8. The evidence tended to prove the following facts: The plaintiff in error and one August Mainsort, in June, 1873, lived as neighbors, on farms one mile apart. The family of the plaintiff in error consisted of himself and his wife, Esperance, and seven children, and that of Mainsort consisted only of himself and wife; and a criminal intimacy appeared to exist…
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