Goyke v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ebboe to review a judgment of the circuit court'for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BurNell, Circuit Judge. Tbe action was against the plaintiff in error on the charge of his being the father of a bastard child. It was commenced in the municipal court of the city of Oshkosh and county of Winnebago.
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Ebboe to review a judgment of the circuit court'for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BurNell, Circuit Judge. Tbe action was against the plaintiff in error on the charge of his being the father of a bastard child. It was commenced in the municipal court of the city of Oshkosh and county of Winnebago. A motion was made therein before a jury was called for the trial for a change of the place thereof to the circuit court for Winnebago county; such motion being based upon affidavit of the accused that he believed he could not obtain a fair and impartial, trial in said municipal court. The motion was…
1DissentTimiuN, J.
Statutes providing a proceeding for ascertaining the paternity of bastard children and compelling the father to support such children have been in force in this state since the creation of the state, and are collected, revised, and brought forward in ch. 64, Stats. (1898). Whatever steps of procedure therein are not explicitly covered by the statutes have been built up by the courts in the decision of particular cases, and in this way the proceeding has been judicially defined as not a criminal but a gwsvcriminal prosecution. Baker v. State, 65 Wis. 50, 26 N. W. 167; State v. Mushied, 12 Wis.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Tucker v. SellersIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
- State v. MushiedWisconsin Supreme Court · 1860
- Baker v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1885
- Shuster v. FinanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- Allen v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1856
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