State v. Knight
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Repoeted from the municipal court of Dane county: Anthony Donovan, Judge. Defendant was tried in January, 1903, in the municipal court of Dane county, on charge of adultery.
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Repoeted from the municipal court of Dane county: Anthony Donovan, Judge. Defendant was tried in January, 1903, in the municipal court of Dane county, on charge of adultery. The prosecuting witness having testified to the act, and the defendant Raving denied it, the state, in rebuttal, introduced impeaching evidence of the bad reputation of defendant for truth and veracity at tbe village of Oregon, where be resided front about March, 1901, to about June, 1902. Defendant then offered, and the court received, evidence of a witness that he was familiar with defendant’s reputation for truth and…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The first subject debated is whether this court is authorized by the statutes to answer questions of law in criminal cases upon a report from the judge of the municipal court of Dane county, as it is upon the report of a circuit judge by express provision of sec. 4721, Stats. 1898. That section provides:
“If upon the trial of any person who shall be convicted in-said circuit court any question of law shall arise which, in the opinion of the judge, shall be so important or so doubtful *475as to require tbe decision, of tbe supreme court, be shall, if tbe defendant desire it or consent thereto,…
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