State v. McCormick

Citations

• 20 Wash. 94
• 54 P. 764
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 471

Syllabus

<p>INFORMATION — DUPLICITY — MISCONDUCT OF COURT — INTERFERENCE WITH JURY.</p> <p>The fact that under an information charging the defendant with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon he might be convicted of assault and battery, or an assault, does not render it invalid as charging more than one crime, since these are but lesser grades of the offense charged.</p> <p>A conviction will he reversed where the court, without permission of the defendant, delivered to certain of the jurors letters and a newspaper addressed to them, although the letters were from a .distance and had been in transit for several days, and the newspaper contained nothing relative to the cause ■on trial.</p>