Court Opinion

ID: 9580439
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:04:58.878276+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:16.961949
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). The state public defender has made a motion for rehearing and filed a brief in support of the motion. Briefs amicus curiae were also filed in support of the motion. The motion is denied with this sole comment: The brief of the state public defender in support of the motion for rehearing refers to the prior conviction of November 21, 1965, for disorderly conduct and resisting an officer as a *729municipal ordinance conviction. This is merely an allegation of the state public defender and entirely unsupported by the record. The judgment of conviction and sentence, sentencing petitioner under the repeater statute, states the November 21st conviction was “for drunk and disorderly conduct and resisting an officer, contrary to Section 947.01 of the Wisconsin Statutes.” Under the law of Wisconsin the violation of a misdemeanor statute is against the peace and dignity of Wisconsin and a criminal act. A violation of a municipal ordinance is a forfeiture and a civil action.