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prisonment in said state prison or reformatory not more than two years or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. [1919 c. 349 s. 10.]

Breaking prison. Section 4494. Any person who may be in any prison in this state under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison, the Wisconsin state reformatory, or in the house of correction of Milwaukee county and who shall break such prison and escape shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, the Wisconsin state reformatory, or the house of correction of Milwaukee county one year in addition to the unexpired term for which he was originally sentenced. [1919 c. 349 s. 10.]

Escape from county jail or workhouse. Section 4495. (1) Any person who may be imprisoned, pursuant to a sentence, in the county jail or county workhouse, or who shall have been committed for the purpose of detaining him for trial for any offense not punishable by imprisonment for life, and who shall break prison and escape shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months.

(2) Any such prisoner under sentence who shall escape or attempt to escape while employed in prison labor outside of the prison enclosure as authorized by law shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison or county jail not more than one year. [1919 c. 350 s. 11.]

Giving liquor to prisoners; mingling sexes. Section. 4497. Any sheriff, jailer or keeper of any prison or any other person who shall sell, give or deliver to any prisoner, or willfully or negligently permit any such prisoner to have any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, and any prisoner who shall use such liquor, in violation of subsection 2 of section 55.07, or who shall have in his possession in the precincts of any prison, with intent to sell, give or deliver the same to some prisoner, such spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or who shall place or keep together or knowingly permit to be kept together prisoners of different sexes, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months. [1919 c. 350 s. 12.]

Definition of vagrants; penalty. Section 4556a. All persons of the classes enumerated in this section, except dependent, neglected, or delinquent children as defined in section 48.01, shall be deemed vagrants, namely: All idle persons who, not having visible means to maintain themselves, live without employment; all persons wandering abroad and lodging in groceries, beerhouses, outhouses, market places, sheds or barns or in the open air, all common drunkards; all lewd, wanton, lascivious persons in speech or behavior; all persons wandering abroad or begging or who go about from door to door or place themselves in the streets, highways, passages or other public places to beg or receive alms, or fortune tellers and other like impostors or gamblers, and persons having no visible occupation and unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves, and every female who shall be found wandering about the streets and addressing male persons for the purpose of soliciting the commission of any lewd, indecent or unlawful act, or for the purpose of enticing any male person into a house of prostitution, bed house, room or other place for any unlawful purpose, or any female inmate of any bawdy house, or house of prostitution, or assignation house or brothel, or any common prostitute who shall be found wandering about the streets or loitering in or about any restaurant, lodging house, saloon or place where intoxicat. ing liquors are sold; and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the county jail not exceeding ninety days or by solitary confinement therein not less than three days nor more than ten days. [Stats. 1917 s. 1543, 1546; 1919 c. 614 s. 5, 6.]

Maternity homes and home-finding agencies. Section 4586m. Any person or persons, agency, association or corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of sections 58.03 or 58.04 regulating maternity homes, babyfarms, and home-finding agencies, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonmeat in the county jail or house of correction not more than one year, and said term of imprisonment in case of a corporation may be imposed upon the officers of said corporation, who are responsible for said violation. Stats. 1917 s. 1542f, 1786d-1, sub. 4; 1919 c. 616 s. 6.]

Insanity at the time of committing the offense. Section 4697. (1) When any person is indicted or informed against for any offense and such person or counsel in his behalf shall, before the commencement of the trial, inform the court that such person, at the time of the commission of such alleged offense, was insane or feeble-minded and for that reason not responsible for his acts, the court shall order a special plea, setting up and alleging such insanity, or feeble-mindedness, to be filed on his behalf with a plea of not guilty; and the special issue thereby made shall be tried and determined by the jury with the plea of not guilty; and if such jury shall find upon such special issue that such accused person was so insane, or feeble-minded, or that there is reasonable doubt of his sanity or mental responsibility at the time of the commission of such alleged offense, they shall return a verdict of not guilty because insane, or feeble-minded.

(2) The presumption of such accused person's sanity and mental normality, at the time of the commission of such alleged offense, shall prevail and be sufficient proof thereof on the trial of such special issue, unless the evidence produced on such trial shall create in the minds of the jury a reasonable doubt of the sanity or mental responsibility of such accused person at the time of the commission of such alleged offense.

(3) If the defendant shall be found by the jury "no guilty because insane" or "not guilty because feeble-minded," he shall forthwith be committed by the court to the central state hospital for the insane or to the home for the feebleminded, there to be detained and treated until he shall be discharged according to law.

(4) A re-examination of his sanity or mental condition may be had as provided in section 51.11; but no such person so committed shall be discharged from detention unless the magistrate or the jury upon whom devolves the duty to pass upon his sanity and mental condition shall, in addition to finding him sane and mentally responsible, also find that he is not likely to have such a recurrence of insanity or mental irresponsibility as would result in acts which, but for insanity or mental irresponsibility, would constitute crimes. [1919 c. 347 s. 29.]

Insanity at the time of trial or conviction. Section 4700. (1) If the court shall be informed, in any manner, that any person, indicted or informed against for any offense probably is, at the time of his trial, or after his conviction and before commitment, insane or feeble-minded and thereby incapacitated to act for himself, the court shall, in a summary manner, make inquisition thereof by a jury or otherwise as it deems most proper.

(2) If it shall be determined by such inquisition that such accused person is insane or feeble-minded his trial, sentence, or commitment for such offense shall be postponed indefinitely, and the court shall thereupon order that he be confined in the central state hospital for the insane or in the home for feeble-minded.

(3) Upon the recovery of such person from his insanity or feeble-mindedness the said superintendent shall notify the court in which such indictment or information is pending of such recovery, and said court shall thereupon issue to the sheriff of the county a warrant requiring him to take such accused person into his custody and confine him in the county jail of said county pending trial, sentence, or commitment for such offense; but such person may be released on recognizance or bail as provided in chapter 195.

(4) If it shall be determined, pursuant to section 51.11, that the insanity or feeble-mindedness of such accused person is incurable he shall be treated and disposed of as persons incurably insane or feeble-minded are required by law. to be treated; but no such person shall be removed or discharged from said hospital or home except upon the order of the court having jurisdiction of such persons for trial, sentence, or commitment. [Stats. 1917 s. 584, 4700; 1919 c. 347 s. 30.]

Record of testimony. Section 4713m. The judge presiding at the trial of any person accused of an offense for which he may be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one year shall file or cause to be filed with the clerk a transcript of all testimony given in such trial. [Stats. 1917 s. 4858; 1919 c. 615 s. 12.]

CHAPTER 47

EDUCATION AND RELIEF OF THE BLIND AND DEAF.

SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND DEAF.

SECTION 2. The designations "Wisconsin school for the blind," "Wisconsin school for the deaf," and "Wisconsin institute for blind artisans," as used in this act and whenever referred to in any act of the legislature or in any court proceeding, are the designations, respectively, of the school that has been established and is now maintained at the city of Janesville for the education of the blind, of the school that has been established and is now maintained at the city of Delavan for the education of the deaf, and of the school heretofore established and now maintained at the city of Milwaukee pursuant to chapter 432, laws of 1903; and whenever these designations shall have been incorporated in the statutes they shall remain such legal designations, notwithstanding the repeal of this section.

SECTION 27. On and after the passage and publication of this act all existing boards of trustees, in charge of the poorhouse, asylum for the chronic insane, tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, house of correction, or workhouse, of any county whose population is less than two hundred and fifty thousand, and all superintendents of said institutions appointed by said boards shall be governed pursuant to sections 46. 18 and 46.19; but all members of any board, commission, committee or other body, overseers, superintendents, and other officers, in charge of said institutions who are now in office, shall continue in said offices, respectively, until the expiration of their terms, according to the statutes in force next prior to the passage and publication of this act, and until the beginning of the next regular term, if any, of their successors, respectively, as fixed in this act.

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