State v. Johnson

Citations

• 103 Wash. 59
• 173 P. 723
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1002

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Evidence—Confessions. Whether a confession of illegal possession of whiskey was obtained by duress is irrelevant where the accused testified on the stand to everything in the confession save only that he testified that he “thought” it was whiskey.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Appeal—Misconduct of Counsel — Record. Error cannot he assigned upon improper argument of the prosecuting attorney, in the absence of a request for an instruction to the jury to disregard it.</p> <p>Same — Appeal—Record — Affidavits. Affidavits upon a motion for a new trial must he certified as part of the statement of facts, or they cannot he considered.</p>