Schwantes v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
EeRos to review a judgment of the circuit court for Marathon" county: James O’Neill, Judge. On the 11th day of November, 1901, during such term the plaintiff in error, in due form of law, was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree, — in that on the 14th day of November, 1900, at such county, with malice aforethought he took the life of William Klokow and Ernestina Klokow, his wife, — and was in due form sentenced to be punished by confinement at hard labor in the…
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EeRos to review a judgment of the circuit court for Marathon" county: James O’Neill, Judge. On the 11th day of November, 1901, during such term the plaintiff in error, in due form of law, was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree, — in that on the 14th day of November, 1900, at such county, with malice aforethought he took the life of William Klokow and Ernestina Klokow, his wife, — and was in due form sentenced to be punished by confinement at hard labor in the state prison at Waupun, Wisconsin, during his natural life. Subsequently a writ of error was sued out of this court for a…
1Opinion of the CourtMausiiall, J.
' The following circumstances appear conclusively from the record without controversy, or there is evidence tending to establish the same: William Klokow and Ernestina Illokow were foreign bom. They were Germans of humble degree. They settled on the northeast quarter of *165tbe northeast quarter, of section 3, town 26, range 2 east, in Marathon county, Wisconsin, about the year 1883, and there resided until the 14th day of November, 1900. The last seen ■of them while living, so far as known, was on the evening of that day. Their remains were subsequently discovered as hereinafter indicated. They…
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