Case Name: State vs. Stone
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1878-01
Citations: 43 Wis. 481
Docket Number: 
Parties: State vs. Stone.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 481–482

Head Matter:
State vs. Stone.
Repeal of penal statute.
Since the repeal of section 6, cli. 273 of 1874, judgment will not go against one convicted of a misdemeanor under that section, upon complaint entered prior to the repeal. Rood v. Railway Co., ante, p. 146.
ON EXCEPTIONS from the Circuit Court for Dane County.
In May, 1874, a complaint was entered in tbe municipal court of tbe city of Madison, charging the defendant with a misdemeanor in receiving, as agent of tbe Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company at Madison, compensation for the carriage of a certain person on said company’s road from Madison to Janesville, at a greater rate than that prescribed by tbe statute. Secs. 2 and 6, cli. 273 of 1874. Such proceedings were then bad in the municipal court, that, in July following, defendant was found guilty of the offense charged, and fined $50; and he appealed to the circuit court. The cause coming on for trial in that court in November, 1877, a motion to dismiss the action and discharge the' defendant was denied; he was found guilty; a motion in arrest of judgment was denied; and the cause was brought to this court on defendant’s exceptions.

Opinion:
Ryan, C. J.
The penalty and the prosecution went with the repeal of the statute. Rood v. Railway Co., ante, p. 146. All the exceptions in the court below were therefore well taken; and the defendant is entitled to arrest of judgment on the verdict.
By the Court. — Exceptions sustained.