State v. Cronin

Citations

• 20 Wash. 512
• 56 P. 26
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 192

Syllabus

<p>MURDER-SUFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION-VERIFICATION-FORM OF VERDICT.</p> <p>The verification of an information charging defendant with a crime, to the effect that it is true as the affiant “verily believes,” is sufficient under Bal. Code, § 6833 (2Hill’s Code, § 1231), which provides that all informations shall be verified, but prescribes no particular ioim.</p> <p>An information charging murder in the first degree states sufficient facts when it alleges that defendant, at a certain time and place, “purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice killed” deceased, “by then and there purposely and of his deliberate and premeditated malice shooting and wounding the said” deceased “with a pistol, which” defendant “then and there held in his hand.”</p> <p>A verdict returned by the jury signed by one member as “foreman,” followed by the signatures of the other eleven, one of whom signs by mark, is in substantial conformity with the requirements of Bal. Code, § 6961 (2 Hill’s Code, § 1325), which provides a form for guidance, to be signed by the foreman alone, but is directory merely.</p>