Legal Opinion
State v. Schweider
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided January 2, 1959PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHallows, J.
The defendant assigns as error the overruling of his challenge to the testimony of Senglaub, the prosecuting witness, for the reason that the witness was mentally incompetent and had no respect for the truth. The court allowed in evidence the official record of the county court of Sheboygan county in the guardianship proceedings of Seng-laub in which a guardian was appointed for him on January 22, 1957, on the ground he was an incompetent. The defend ant stated he was prepared to aid the trial court and to offer medical testimony in support of his objection. The court stated that if it…
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