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EDWARDS v. STATE

Nos. State 59-61.

49 Wis.2d 105 (1970)

181 N.W.2d 383

EDWARDS, Plaintiff in error, v. STATE, Defendant in error. [No. State 59.] HILL, Plaintiff in error, v. STATE, Defendant in error. [No. State 60.] HILL, Plaintiff in error, v. STATE, Defendant in error. [No. State 61.]

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided December 1, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff in error William Edwards, Jr., there was a brief by David J. Hase, attorney, and Grootemaat, Cook & Franke, and Eugene W. Murphy, Jr., of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Hase.

For the plaintiff in error Robert Louis Hill there were briefs and oral argument by James H. McDermott, state public defender.

For the defendant in error the cause was argued by Joseph M. Wilson, assistant district attorney of Milwaukee county, with whom on the brief were Robert W. Warren, attorney general, and E. Michael McCann, district attorney.

HALLOWS, C. J.

Both Edwards and Hill raise the issue of whether the trial court erred in refusing to require Higgins, a narcotic user and a witness for the prosecution, to display his arm to the jury or to Detective Thelen, a witness, after Higgins had admitted the use of heroin by injection into his arm about seventy-two hours before the time he testified. Edwards raises two additional questions: (1) Whether the court erred in limiting the questioning of Detective...

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