State v. Counort

Citations

• 69 Wash. 361
• 124 P. 910
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 910

Syllabus

<p>Schools and School Districts—Offenses—Compulsory Attendance—Information—Sufficiency. An information for violation of tbe school law providing for compulsory attendance of children of school age in the public school of the district for the full term, or in a private school for the same term, is not defective in that it charges the neglect to cause the children to attend the public school or an “approved” private school, where the gist of the offense was in the failure to attend any school, public or private, and the information clearly charges such offense.</p> <p>Same—Defenses—Home Instruction. It is no defense to a prosecution for violating the school law requiring parents to cause their children of school age to attend the public school of the district or a private school, that the parent is experienced and qualified as a teacher and gave private instruction to his own children at his home; such home instruction not being attendance at a private school within the meaning of the law, where he did not maintain a private school at his home as determined by the purpose, intent, and character of the endeavor.</p> <p>Appeal—Review—Harmless Error. Error cannot be predicated upon sustaining an objection to two questions because united as one, one of which was improper, where appellant did not avail himself of an opportunity to sever the questions.</p> <p>.. Appeal—Preservation op Grounds—Exceptions. -One general exception to “each, and every” of the instructions is insufficient to secure a review of error in the instructions.</p>