Case ID: wis_254/html/0595-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hughes, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State, Respondent, vs. Roberson, Appellant.
    
      March 11
    
    April 12, 1949.
    
    
      
      Sydney M. Eisenberg1 and Harold Harris, both of Milwaukee, for the appellant.
    
      For the respondent there was a brief by the Attorney General, William J. McCauley, district attorney of Milwaukee county, and Joseph E. Tierney, deputy district attorney, and oral argument by Mr. Tierney.
    
   Hughes, J.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of the type and disposition of previous convictions for other offenses after defendant had admitted the fact of previous conviction.

The objections to questions asked by the prosecutor, which showed the disposition of cases where previous convictions had been obtained, were sustained. The trial court specifically instructed the jury that such questions were improper and did not constitute evidence, and were to be ignored.

The trial court’s admission into evidence of the nature of the offense of which the defendant was convicted in 1944 for the purpose of reflecting his credibility as a witness, was not an abuse of discretion. Meyers v. State (1927), 193 Wis. 126, 213 N. W. 645.

By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.