Court Opinion

ID: 9662468
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:10:14.908242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:38.685874
License: Public Domain

Egbert W. Hansen, J.
(concurring). Where a statute in this state criminalizes a certain act only if it is performed by a male or a female, such statute is to be read as applying to both male and female persons. This is so because sec. 990.001 (2), Stats., provides: “Words importing one gender extend and may be applied to any gender.” 'While not disagreeing with the reasoning or result reached by the court majority, the writer sees the denial of equal protection challenge here as failing, ab initio, because criminal statutes in this state apply to persons, male or female, by reason of sec. 990.001 (2).