Case ID: wis_191/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eschweiler, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Schacht, Plaintiff in error, vs. The State, Defendant in error.
    
      September 18
    
    October 12, 1926.
    
    
      Bastardy: Evidence: Sufficiency: Harmless error.
    
    A judgment in bastardy proceedings is affirmed although it is conceded that error occurred in the instructions and on the trial, as the errors assigned are held not to affect the substantial rights qf the plaintiff in error.
    Error to review a judgment of the circuit court for Sauk county: August C. Hoppmann, Circuit Judge.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      V. H. Cady of Baraboo, for the plaintiff in error.
    For the prosecutrix there was a brief by Grotophorst, Quale & Langer of Baraboo, and oral argument by H. M. Langer.
    
   Eschweiler, J.

Upon a verdict of the jury, plaintiff in error, defendant below, was adjudged the father of a child born to the complaining witness and was held chargeable with its future maintenance. Upon writ of error a large number of errors are assigned.

We have considered them all, and although it appears that conceded error was made by the trial court in his charge to the jury on the subject of the presumption of innocence; that the defendant was unduly restricted in his own examination as to a, conversation alleged to have taken place between himself and the complaining witness; was improperly deprived of impeaching testimony offered . as to one or more of the witnesses, yet because, under sec. 274.37, Stats, (sec. 3072m), the errors assigned and found in the record do not, in our opinion, after an examination of the entire proceedings, so affect the substantial rights of the plaintiff in error as to require a reversal of the judgment or the granting of a new trial, we must nevertheless affirm.

It is deemed unnecessary to detail or discuss the evidence or the specific errors assigned.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.