City of Port Angeles v. Fisher

Citations

• 130 Wash. 110
• 226 P. 489
• 1924 Wash. LEXIS 832

Syllabus

<p>Indictment and Information (37) — Requisites—Designation of Accused. A complaint before a justice of the peace for the violation of an ordinance is not insufficient because it fails to set out the defendant’s name except in the title.</p> <p>Intoxicating Liquors (42) — Offenses—Unlawful Possession— Complaint — Sufficiency. A complaint charging the violation of a city ordinance is not objectionable in that it charges several offenses, viz.; receiving intoxicating liquor from a common carrier, of buying, selling and disposing of the same, having unlawful possession of liquor, of being a jointist, and also a bootlegger, where it is sufficient only as to the unlawful possession, being insufficient in the other respects in that it failed to allege that he opened up and conducted a place, or carried it about for the purpose of sale, the words “buy, sell,” etc., being necessarily eliminated because insufficient to charge any offense.</p>