State v. Murphy

Citations

• 101 Wash. 425
• 172 P. 544
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 845

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Appeal—Review — Objection Not Made Below. ■Objection to the scope of the cross-examination of the accused cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.</p> <p>Same. The erroneous impeachment of the accused upon a collateral matter cannot be raised on appeal, in the absence of a proper -objection thereto below.</p> <p>Criminal Law—Trial—^-Instructions— Grade or Degree of Offense. In a prosecution for arson in the first degree, in setting on fire in the nighttime a building in which there were one or more human beings,- it is proper to refuse to instruct as to arson in the second degree when there was no evidence thereof.</p>