State v. Lindgrind

Citations

• 33 Wash. 440
• 74 P. 565
• 1903 Wash. LEXIS 538

Syllabus

<p>Homicide—Manslaughter Excluded by Extradition on Charge of Murder—Instructions Defining Crime. Where the accused was extradited on the charge of murder, and so could be tried only for that offense, it is not error to refuse an instruction defining the crime of manslaughter and instructing that under the extradition laws he can not be tried therefor, and to aquit if guilty thereof, when the court properly defines murder in the first and second degrees, purposely, deliberation, premeditation, and malice, and instructs the jury to acquit if not guilty of either of the crimes defined, since the object of the requested instruction to obviate confusion between manslaughter and murder was fully met by the explicit instructions given.</p>