State v. Bringgold

Citations

• 40 Wash. 12
• 82 P. 132
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 930

Syllabus

<p>Appeal — Review—Quashing Writ op Certiorari Not Reviewed on Subsequent Appeal From the Judgment. Error in refusing to quash a writ of certiorari from a justice’s court, appeal from which was taken hut not perfected, cannot he reviewed on a subsequent appeal from a conviction thereafter had in the superior court.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Appeal prom Justice’s Court — Trial de Novo After Sustaining Demurrer to Complaint in Justice’s Court. Upon appeal from a justice’s court in a criminal case, the superior court has jurisdiction of the cause for trial de novo, and after sustaining a demurrer to the complaint below, may direct a new complaint or information to he filed.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Plea oe Guilty — Withdrawal—Evidence as Admission of Defendant. A plea of guilty in a justice’s court that has been withdrawn is competent evidence as an admission upon the trial of the cause de novo in the superior court.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Evidence of Justice of Peace Before Whom Defendant Was Tried — Admissibility. A justice of the peace is a competent witness concerning the facts that occurred before him on a previous trial of the case.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Tampering with Witnesses — Evidence of Defendant’s Knowledge of Pendency of Suit. Upon a prosecution for tampering with a witness in a certain cause, the record in such cause is admissible where there was other evidence that the defendant knew that such cause was in progress at the time in question.</p> <p>Same — Record of Former Case — Indentification of Complaint— When Admissible Without Authentication. Upon a prosecution for tampering with a witness in a certain cause, a complaint, to which the defendant had pleaded guilty at a former trial, is admissible in evidence without authentication, when there is evidence that it had been read over to the accused at the former trial and was identified as the same complaint to which he had pleaded guilty.</p> <p>Same — Witness Tampered With Not Subpoenaed. Upon a prosecution fo