State v. Reese

Citations

• 112 Wash. 507
• 192 P. 934
• 11 A.L.R. 1018
• 1920 Wash. LEXIS 762

Syllabus

<p>Criminax. Law (29-2)—Venue—Constitutional Provisions— Right to Trial by Jury of Vicinage. Under Const., art. 1, § 22, granting to accused persons the right to a speedy, public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, one accused of crime has a right to be tried in the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.</p> <p>Same. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2293, making the route traversed by a railway car, train or other public conveyance, and the water traversed by any boat, criminal districts, and providing that the jurisdiction of offenses committed on any such railway car, train or boat, or at any station or depot upon such route, shall be in any county through which such car, train or boat may pass during the trip or voyage, or in which the trip or voyage may begin or terminate, is void as in violation of Const., art. 1, § 22, guaranteeing to the accused the right to be tried in the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.</p>