STATE v. JOHNSON


11 Wis.2d 130 (1960)

STATE, Respondent, v. JOHNSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

June 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was submitted for the appellant on the brief of Robert D. Martinson, attorney, and Immell, Herro, Buehner & DeWitt, all of Madison, and for the respondent on the brief of John W. Reynolds, attorney general, William A. Platz, assistant attorney general, and John R. Dickerson, district attorney of Vilas county.


HALLOWS, J.

The defendant did not testify or offer any testimony and relies on his presumption of innocence and his claimed insufficiency of the evidence. The evidence against him is entirely circumstantial, but this is not unusual in a criminal case. Not many criminals are caught in the act like a child with his hand in the cooky jar. Circumstantial evidence may be and often is stronger and as convincing as direct evidence. The same rule of the burden of proof in...

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