State v. Gilbert

This appeal is from a non-final order of the circuit court for Rock county, John H. Lussow, circuit judge. The court of appeals granted the state leave to appeal, secs. 808.03(2), 809.50, Stats. 1979-80, and this court granted the state’s petition to bypass the court of appeals. Secs. 808.05(1), 809.60, Stats. 1979-80. The issue posed on appeal is whether the circuit court erred in quashing a subpoena ad testifi-candum requiring the attendance of a ten-year-old girl (BP) to testify at a preliminary examination, on the ground that the “best interests of the child” were served by not having her…