State v. Miller

Citations

• 72 Wash. 174
• 130 P. 356
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1926

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors — Local Option — Delegation of Legislative Powers. The local option law is not an unwarranted delegation of legislative power to the electors of the various local option units.</p> <p>Witnesses — Impeachment — Competency of Witness. An impeaching witness is not qualified to testify as to the reputation for truth and veracity of another, where he did not know him and merely prosecuted an inquiry for seven days, making inquiry of forty or fifty people.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Trial—Instructions—Comment on Facts. In a criminal prosecution, a request to instruct that the evidence of detectives or police officers must be closely scrutinized and weighed with great care, owing to the nature of their business and the tendency to overdraw their testimony, is properly refused; as the same would have been unlawful comment upon the evidence in violation of Const., art, 4, § 16.</p> <p>Appeal — Review—Record. Objection to costs cannot be urged on appeal, where the record fails to show what disposition, if any, was made of a motion to retax costs.</p>