Seiler v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dunn county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. The writ issued to review a conviction of the offense of fornication. The information contained two counts, one for rape and one for fornication with a sane female of previous chaste character under the age of eighteen years.
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Error to review a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dunn county: E. W. Helms, Circuit Judge. The writ issued to review a conviction of the offense of fornication. The information contained two counts, one for rape and one for fornication with a sane female of previous chaste character under the age of eighteen years. Upon the trial the charge of rape was withdrawn by the district attorney by oral notice to the court and its permission; but it was not formally stricken from the information, though the court submitted to the jury only the charge of fornication. The evidence is undisputed that…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
The first proposition submitted by counsel for the plaintiff in error, the truth of which they seek to demonstrate, is that the circuit court had no jurisdiction to sentence the accused or do anything in the case after the return of the record to that court. In support thereof our attention is called to the following sections of the Statutes of 1898:
‘ SbctioN 4720. Any person who shall be convicted of an offense before the circuit court, being aggrieved by any opinion, direction or judgment of the court in any matter of law, may allege exceptions to such opinion, direction or judgment, which…
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