Menn v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Eruit, Circuit Judge. Charge of bastardy laid by Louisa Veith alleging paternity of child horn July 1, 1905. The evidence of prosecutrix was that on the evening of Sunday, October 16,1904, she, in company with two other girls, attended church in the village of Bor walk, and that at the close of the services defendant joined her at the church door and walked along with her, allowing her companions to go-…
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ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Eruit, Circuit Judge. Charge of bastardy laid by Louisa Veith alleging paternity of child horn July 1, 1905. The evidence of prosecutrix was that on the evening of Sunday, October 16,1904, she, in company with two other girls, attended church in the village of Bor walk, and that at the close of the services defendant joined her at the church door and walked along with her, allowing her companions to go- ahead, wberenpon be and sbe went into an obscure place, where intercourse was bad upon wbicb sbe predicates bis…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. Errors assigned upon the trial court’s refusal to rule that the.evidence could not support a verdict of guilty must be overruled. While a large amount of evidence was introduced to establish defendant’s alibi at the only time when it was claimed intercourse was had, and while that evidence is rendered very definite as to date by reference to certain records and other ascertained events, yet the prose-*63cutrix’s own testimony as to time, as also that of several cor.roborative witnesses, is no less positive and no less certainly ^connected with events the dates of which are hardly debatable.…
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