Doherty v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the 'Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. An information was filed in the circuit court for Fond du Lac county against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the crime of manslaughter, in that he, the said Michael Doherty, “ did on the 3d day of January, A. D. 1891, at the city of Fond du Lac, in said county, wilfully and feloniously kill and slay one Michael Cahill, against the peace and dignity of the state of Wisconsin.”
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ERROR to the 'Circuit Court for Fond du Lao County. An information was filed in the circuit court for Fond du Lac county against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the crime of manslaughter, in that he, the said Michael Doherty, “ did on the 3d day of January, A. D. 1891, at the city of Fond du Lac, in said county, wilfully and feloniously kill and slay one Michael Cahill, against the peace and dignity of the state of Wisconsin.” The plaintiff in error was tried upon such information, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree. The court overruled…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, C. J.
On January 3, 1891, the plaintiff in error, Michael Doherty, who was a duly elected and legally qualified policeman of the city of Fond du Lac, having all the powers and authority of a constable to serve civil process, received from a justice of the peace for service a valid civil warrant for the arrest of Michael Cahill. Having had *154trouble with Cahill when attempting to arrest him on a former occasion, and having-been informed that Cahill had made threats of violence against him in case he should attempt to arrest him again, Doherty armed himself with a .38-caliber, self-cocking, loaded…
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