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85 Wis. 681

In re Eckart

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided September 26, 1893

Wisconsin Supreme Court · decided 1893-09-26

<p>Habeas corpus: Erroneous judgment.</p> <p>Where, under an information charging, generally, wilful and felonious murder with malice aforethought, a simple verdict of guilty is rendered, not specifying any degree, a judgment thereon is erroneous, but there is no jurisdictional defect authorizing the discharge of the prisoner- on habeas corpus.</p>

Relies on In re Graham · Hogan v. State

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Decided 1893-09-26

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Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1941

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Winslow, J.

¶1The petitioner was tried for murder, April 10, 1878, upon an information charging, generally, wilful and felonious murder with malice aforethought. A simple verdict of guilty was rendered, not specifying any degree, upon which he was sentenced to imprisonment for life. He now asks for a writ of habeas corpus, and for his discharge from imprisonment thereon, because he claims that *682no judgment could lawfully be pronounced on the verdict, under the law as settled in Hogan v. State, 30 Wis. 428, and Allen v. State, ante, p. 22. It seems that the judgment was erroneous under these cases, but that fact does not authorize his discharge upon habeas corpus. The court had jurisdiction of the person and of the offense, but made a mistake in the judgment. Habeas corpus reaches only jurisdictional defects, and there is no such defect here. The case is ruled by the case of In re Graham, 74 Wis. 450.

¶2By the Court.— Writ denied.

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