Case Name: State, Plaintiff, vs. La Barge, Defendant
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1940-04-09
Citations: 234 Wis. 449
Docket Number: 
Parties: State, Plaintiff, vs. La Barge, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 234
Pages: 449–451

Head Matter:
State, Plaintiff, vs. La Barge, Defendant.
March 15 —
April 9, 1940.
For the plaintiff there was a brief by the Attorney General, Warren H. Resh, assistant attorney general, Edmund H. Drager, district attorney of Vilas county, and A. H. Smith, special assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Mr. Resh and Mr. Smith.
Thomas L. St. Germaine of Lac du Flambeau, for the defendant.

Opinion:
Martin, J.
It will serve no useful purpose to- again discuss the law applicable to the facts set out above. The question here certified must be answered in the affirmative upon the authority of State v. Morrin (1908), 136 Wis. 552, 117 N. W. 1006, and State v. Johnson (1933), 212 Wis. 301, 249 N. W. 284; also upon the authority of Ward v. Race Horse, 163 U. S. 504, 16 Sup. Ct. 1076, 41 L. Ed. 244, and People ex rel. Kennedy v. Becker, 241 U. S. 556, 36 Sup. Ct. 705, 60 L. Ed. 1166, and the cases therein cited.
By the Court. — The question certified to this court is answered in the affirmative.