State v. Crane
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This caso comes to the Supreme Court upon the report of the circuit judge, of questions of law which arose on the trial, and which he deemed of such importance as to require the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon. The report is set out at length' in the opinion of the court, except that a copy of the indictment was appended thereto, which charged, or intended to charge, the defendant below with an assault upon his wife, Anna K. Crane, with intent to kill and murder her.
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This caso comes to the Supreme Court upon the report of the circuit judge, of questions of law which arose on the trial, and which he deemed of such importance as to require the opinion of the Supreme Court thereon. The report is set out at length' in the opinion of the court, except that a copy of the indictment was appended thereto, which charged, or intended to charge, the defendant below with an assault upon his wife, Anna K. Crane, with intent to kill and murder her. One objection taken to the indictment was, that no crime was charged therein, viz: that there was no assault alleged, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith, J.
This case comes here by the report of the circuit judge of Racine county, which is as follows :
“-The defendant was indicted and tried at the April term of this court, A. D. 1854, for an assault upon his wife, with intent to murder her. The jury being unable to agree upon a verdict in the case, were discharged by the court without the consent of the defendant. At the October term of this court, a nolle prosequi was entered to said indictment on motion of the district attorney, and another indictment for the same offence (differing from the former indictment only in form)…
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