State v. Lyts

Citations

• 25 Wash. 347
• 65 P. 530
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 399

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW-CHANGE OF VENUE-AMENDMENT OF INFORMATION.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, ■§ 4860, which provides that the court to which a change of venue is taken has the same jurisdiction over the action transferred as if it had been originally commenced therein, an information is amendable by the prosecuting attorney, on leave of the court of another county to which the prosecution had been transferred.</p> <p>CONFESSIONS-STATEMENTS MADE ON PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION — ADMISSIBILITY IN EVIDENCE.</p> <p>Testimony of the accused, amounting to a voluntary confession, given on his preliminary examination, may be introduced in evidence on his trial, under our statute (Bal. Code, §6942), which provides that such confession may be given as evidence against the accused, “except when made under the influence of fear produced by threats.”</p>