Hanley v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ebeoe to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Beazee, Judge. Plaintiffs in error*, William Hanley and Joseph Trost, were arrested, tried, and convicted upon the complaint of Paul Lehnhagen, made on August 28, 1903, before the district court for Milwaukee county, charging them with malfeasance in office by wilful extortion, wrong, or oppression.
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Ebeoe to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Beazee, Judge. Plaintiffs in error*, William Hanley and Joseph Trost, were arrested, tried, and convicted upon the complaint of Paul Lehnhagen, made on August 28, 1903, before the district court for Milwaukee county, charging them with malfeasance in office by wilful extortion, wrong, or oppression. The complaint is as follows: “Paul Lehnhagen, being first, duly sworn, on oath complains to the district court of Milwaukee county that William Hanley and Joseph Trost, on the 24th day of February, A. D. 1903, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckeR, J.
It is contended that the plaintiffs in error were entitled to a change of the place of trial on account of the prejudice of the people of Milwaukee county. The statute (sec. 4619, Stats. 1898) provides that the trial of criminal cases is to be had in the county where the offense is committed, except in cases especially provided for, unless it shall be made to appear to the court by affidavit that a fair and impartial tidal cannot be had in such county, and upon such a showing, “if the offense charged in the indictment or information be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison,”" the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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