Brucker v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Buffalo County. The plaintiff in error -was indicted for murder, and being convicted upon the first trial, the judgment was reversed by this court upon a writ of error. See 16 Wis., 333-6. The present action was to reverse a second conviction. The alleged errors chiefly relied upon are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
We deem it necessary to consider but two of the exceptions taken on the part of the plaintiff in error : that to the jurisdiction of the court below because the remittitur had not been filed, and that to the decision excluding the offer to prove “ the vicious temper, nature and disposition of the deceased.”
The first exception is founded solely upon the absence of the remittitur from the files. There is nothing in the present record to show whether the cause had or had not been remitted, or what order, if any, had been made in this court respecting it. The…
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