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STATE v. KROENING

274 Wis. 266 (1956)

STATE, Plaintiff, vs. KROENING, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

December 4, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff there was a brief by the Attorney General and William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, and Rodney Lee Young, district attorney of Rusk county, attorneys, and John H. Bowers of Madison of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Platz and Mr. Young.

For the defendant there were briefs by William P. Westphal and Ryan, Kain & Mikan, all of Minneapolis, Minnesota, attorneys, and Marshall Norseng of Chippewa Falls of counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Westphal.

BROWN, J.

The answer to the First question is "No."

The applicable constitutional provision found in sec. 8, art. I, Wis. Const., is as follows:

"No person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. . . ."

In Thornton v. State (1903), 117 Wis. 338, 93 N. W. 1107, a person accused of rape was compelled after his arrest to surrender his shoe to be compared with footprints at the scene of the crime. We...

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