State ex rel. Repath v. Caldwell

Citations

• 9 Wash. 336
• 37 P. 669
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 312

Syllabus

<p>STATUTES — AMENDMENT — REPEAL BY IMPLICATION — CONSTITUTIONAL LAW- - RIGHT TO SPEEDY TRIAL.</p> <p>The amendment of § 772, Code 1881 (§ 1369, Code Proc.), did not operate to work an amendment or repeal of § 777, Code 1881 (§ 1374, Code Proc.), although the latter section was dependent in its subject matter upon the provisions of § 772. 0</p> <p>The amendment of one section of a code will not work an amendment or repeal of another independent section, although the latter may, by its terms, be in the nature of a proviso to the section amended.</p> <p>Section 1374, Code Proc., providing that the discharge of an accused person for want of a speedy trial shall not be a bar to a further prosecution does not violate the constitutional guaranty to the accused in criminal prosecutions of a speedy public trial.</p>