SOUTH MILWAUKEE v. SCHANTZEN


258 Wis. 41 (1950)

CITY OF SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Respondent, vs. SCHANTZEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

November 8, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Joseph M. Picker, attorney, and Howard G. Brown of counsel, both of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Brown.

Robert E. Mullins of South Milwaukee, for the respondent.


BROWN, J.

The appellant assigns a number of errors, among them an alteration of the affidavit at the trial by the justice, so that it charged drunken instead of reckless driving; and the sentence of a "fine" when the statute authorizes only a forfeiture, and imprisonment in the house of correction while the ordinance specifies the county jail. The appeal also attacks the sufficiency of the evidence upon which the defendant was found guilty. We do not treat these matters...

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