Court Opinion

ID: 9665584
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:52:09.298564+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:17.014824
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The following memorandum was filed December 22, 1967.
Per Curiam (on motion for rehearing). Defendant urges that, inasmuch as prejudicial error was found with respect to two of the three counts as to which he was convicted, we should reverse those two convictions. It is claimed that the affirmance of those two convictions might adversely affect action by the parole board with respect to future applications for parole or pardon. This court by independent investigation has verified that this might occur. With respect to this being a valid ground for setting aside such two convictions see State ex rel. Goodchild v. Burke (1965), 27 Wis. 2d 244, 251, 252, 133 N. W. 2d 753. Therefore, the mandate should be revised so as to provide for the setting aside of these two convictions leaving stand that with respect to the count relating to the April 24, 1963, conviction.
In his brief for rehearing defendant raises for the first time the issue of the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s alibi statute, sec. 955.07, Stats. We decline to consider this issue on the ground that it is raised too late. See Green Bay Drop Forge Co. v. Industrial Comm. (1953), 265 Wis. 38, 60 N. W. 2d 409, 61 N. W. 2d 847, *607band Martinson v. Brooks Equipment Leasing, Inc., ante, p. 209, 224b, 152 N. W. 2d 849.
Defendant’s brief requests that, in the event we decline to rule on the constitutionality issue because not timely raised, his brief for rehearing be treated as a petition for habeas corpus. We decline to do so because no alibi was attempted to be interposed with respect to the April 24, 1963, charged offense. A litigant may not urge the unconstitutionality of a statute upon a point not affecting his rights. Family Finance Corp. v. Sniadach (1967), 37 Wis. 2d 163, 154 N. W. 2d 259, and cases cited in footnote 2 thereof.
The original mandate is revised so as to read as follows: “That part of the judgment of conviction and sentence relating to the charged offenses of August 15 and August 17,1963, is reversed; that part of such judgment relating to the charged offense of April 24, 1963, is affirmed. The state at its election may retry defendant with respect to the August 15 and August 17,1963, charged offenses.”
The motion for rehearing is denied without costs.