Case ID: wis_42/html/0625-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State vs. Parish and Nichols.
    The statute (sec. 8, ch. 180, R. S.) does not authorize the judge of a circuit court, upon the trial of a criminal action, to report the case to the supreme court for its decision of a question of law arising therein, unless the defendant is convicted in such action.
   REPORTED by the Judge of the Eifth Judicial Circuit.

The defendants pleaded mttrefois convict to an information for robbery. Upon the trial of the plea, certain records were given in evidence. The judge of the circuit court, being in doubt whether or not the plea was sustained by the records, certified the question to this court, under sec. 8, ch. 180, R. S.

This court, however, refused to entertain the case, or to hear argument of the question, or to' make any order, upon the ground that the certificate gave this court no jurisdiction under the statute. State v. Kneifle, 12 Wis., 439.